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title: Amos 8:14 (JPS 1917) — They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: 'As thy God, O Dan,… · tree and pragmatics
description: They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: 'As thy God, O Dan, liveth'; and: 'As the way of Beer-sheba liveth'; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. Who acts: virgins. Amos 8:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 8:14 · JPS 1917

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They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: 'As thy God, O Dan, liveth'; and: 'As the way of Beer-sheba liveth'; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

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**Who acts:** virgins · **What happens:** swear, say, live, fall, not rise up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 8:14 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virgins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:AMO:141
# text = They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: 'As thy God, O Dan, liveth'; and: 'As the way of Beer-sheba liveth'; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
14	As	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
27	As	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Beer	Beer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
33	sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	again	again	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by the sin of Samaria | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as thy God and Dan | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the way of Beer sheba | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | shall | virgins *= virgin* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **rise up** | infinitive | virgins *= virgin* *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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הַנִּשְׁבָּעִים֙ בְּאַשְׁמַ֣ת שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן וְאָמְר֗וּ חֵ֤י אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ דָּ֔ן וְחֵ֖י דֶּ֣רֶךְ בְּאֵֽר־שָׁ֑בַעבְּאֵֽר־שָׁ֑בַע וְנָפְל֖וּ וְלֹא־יָק֥וּמוּ עֽוֹד׃ס

[Amos 8:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.14/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:AMO:141` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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