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title: Amos 2:12 (JPS 1917) — But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets,… · tree and pragmatics
description: But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying: 'Prophesy not.' Who acts: ye. Amos 2:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 2:12 · JPS 1917

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But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying: 'Prophesy not.'

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** give, drink, command, say, not prophesy · **To what, where:** Nazirites wine, prophets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 2:12 · 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 (ye), 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:27
# text = But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying: 'Prophesy not.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Nazirites	nazirite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	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 | **give** | past | ye | the Nazirites wine |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **command** | past | ye *not said here* | the prophets |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent prophet=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **prophesy** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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וַתַּשְׁק֥וּ אֶת־הַנְּזִרִ֖ים יָ֑יִן וְעַל־הַנְּבִיאִים֙ צִוִּיתֶ֣ם לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֖א תִּנָּבְאֽוּ׃

[Amos 2:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.12/)

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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:27` 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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