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title: Amos 9:2 (JPS 1917) — Though they dig into the nether-world, thence shall My hand take the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though they dig into the nether-world, thence shall My hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. Who acts: posts, hand, I. Amos 9:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 9:2 · JPS 1917

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Though they dig into the nether-world, thence shall My hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

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**Who acts:** posts, hand, I · **What happens:** dig, take, climb up, bring down · **To what, where:** posts, heaven

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This is Amos 9:2 · 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 (posts, hand, I), 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:143
# text = Though they dig into the nether-world, thence shall My hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	nether	nether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	14	aux	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | present | posts *= post* |  |  |  |  | into the nether world | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into world=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | shall | My hand | posts *= post* |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **climb up** | present | posts *= post* |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Destination |
| 4 | **bring down** | future | I | posts *= post* |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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אִם־יַחְתְּר֣וּ בִשְׁא֔וֹל מִשָּׁ֖ם יָדִ֣י תִקָּחֵ֑ם וְאִֽם־יַעֲלוּ֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם מִשָּׁ֖ם אוֹרִידֵֽם׃

[Amos 9:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.2/)

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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:143` 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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