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title: Amos 9:3 (JPS 1917) — And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search… · tree and pragmatics
description: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. Who acts: posts, I, hand, My. Amos 9:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the 
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# Amos 9:3 · JPS 1917

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And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

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**Who acts:** posts, I, hand, My · **What happens:** hide, search, take out, command, bite, sight · **To what, where:** posts, top, sight, serpent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 9:3 · 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, I, hand, My), 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:144
# text = And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Carmel	Carmel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
36	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **hide** | present | posts *= post* | posts *= post* |  | the top of Carmel |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in top=Location |
| 2 | **search** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take out** | infinitive | I *not said here* | posts *= post* |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | infinitive · passive |  | posts *= post* |  | My sight |  | in the bottom of the sea | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from sight=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **command** | future | I | the serpent |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent serpent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **bite** | shall | hand | posts *= post* |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **sight** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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וְאִם־יֵחָֽבְאוּ֙ בְּרֹ֣אשׁ הַכַּרְמֶ֔ל מִשָּׁ֥ם אֲחַפֵּ֖שׂ וּלְקַחְתִּ֑ים וְאִם־יִסָּ֨תְר֜וּ מִנֶּ֤גֶד עֵינַי֙ בְּקַרְקַ֣ע הַיָּ֔ם מִשָּׁ֛ם אֲצַוֶּ֥ה אֶת־הַנָּחָ֖שׁ וּנְשָׁכָֽם׃

[Amos 9:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.3/)

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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:144` of Mova's parse database.

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