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title: Amos 1:5 (JPS 1917) — And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from Bikath-Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD. Who acts: I, people, LORD. Amos 1:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Amos 1:5 · JPS 1917

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And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from Bikath-Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** I, people, LORD · **What happens:** break, cut off, hold, go, say · **To what, where:** bar, inhabitant, Bikath Aven, sceptre, Beth eden, captivity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 1:5 · 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 (I, people, LORD), 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:4
# text = And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from Bikath-Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Bikath	Bikath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Aven	Aven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	holdeth	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
29	eden	Eden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Aram	Aram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Kir	Kir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **break** | future | I | the bar of Damascus |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bar=Patient |
| 2 | **cut off** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the inhabitant |  | Bikath Aven |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme from aven=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hold** | present |  | the sceptre |  | Beth eden |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | shall | the people of Aram |  |  | captivity |  | unto Kir | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into captivity=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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וְשָֽׁבַרְתִּי֙ בְּרִ֣יחַ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י יוֹשֵׁב֙ מִבִּקְעַת־אָ֔וֶןבִּקְעַת־אָ֔וֶן וְתוֹמֵ֥ךְ שֵׁ֖בֶט מִבֵּ֣ית עֶ֑דֶן בֵּ֣ית עֶ֑דֶן וְגָל֧וּ עַם־אֲרָ֛ם קִ֖ירָה אָמַ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃פ

[Amos 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.1.5/)

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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:4` of Mova's parse database.

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