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title: Amos 2:11 (JPS 1917) — And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Who acts: I. Amos 2:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** raise up

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This is Amos 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (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:25
# text = And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Nazirites	Nazirite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **raise up** | past | I |  |  |  |  | of your sons and your young men for Nazirites; for prophets | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent of son=Destination |

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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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וָאָקִ֤ים מִבְּנֵיכֶם֙ לִנְבִיאִ֔ים וּמִבַּחוּרֵיכֶ֖ם לִנְזִרִ֑ים הַאַ֥ף אֵֽין־זֹ֛את בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

[Amos 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites.**
2. [Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.26/)

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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:25` 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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