--- title: Amos 9:9 (JPS 1917) — For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among a… · tree and pragmatics description: For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Who acts: I, least grain. 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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 (I, least grain), 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:151 # text = For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. 1 For for CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 lo lo INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 command command VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 sift sift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 among among ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 like like SCONJ IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 sifted sift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sieve sieve NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | future | I | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sift** | future | I | the house of Israel | | | | among all nations | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 3 | **sift** | present · passive | | corn | | a sieve | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **fall** | shall | the least grain | | | the earth | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location | 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} כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וַהֲנִע֥וֹתִי בְכָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם אֶת־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִנּ֙וֹעַ֙ בַּכְּבָרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יִפּ֥וֹל צְר֖וֹר אָֽרֶץ׃ [Amos 9:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:AMO:151` 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. - ← previous: [Amos 9:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.150/) - next →: [Amos 9:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.152/) - ↑ back to [Amos 9:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.9.9/)