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title: Amos 3:5 (JPS 1917) — Will a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all? · tree and pragmatics
description: Will a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all? Who acts: snare. Amos 3:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 3:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Will a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?

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**Who acts:** snare · **What happens:** spring up, take · **To what, where:** ground, nothing

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This is Amos 3:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (snare), 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:38
# text = Will a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** | future | a snare |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive · perfect | a snare *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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הֲתִפֹּ֤ל צִפּוֹר֙ עַל־פַּ֣ח הָאָ֔רֶץ וּמוֹקֵ֖שׁ אֵ֣ין לָ֑הּ הֲיַֽעֲלֶה־פַּח֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וְלָכ֖וֹד לֹ֥א יִלְכּֽוֹד׃

[Amos 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.3.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Will a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where there is no lure for it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.37/)
2. **Will a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?**

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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:38` 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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