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title: Amos 3:11 (JPS 1917) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: An adversary, even round about th… · tree and pragmatics
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# Amos 3:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: An adversary, even round about the land!

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**Who acts:** Lord · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 3:11 · 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 (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:46
# text = Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: An adversary, even round about the land!
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord |  |  |  |  | therefore, thus *property* | 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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לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה צַ֖ר וּסְבִ֣יב הָאָ֑רֶץ וְהוֹרִ֤ד מִמֵּךְ֙ עֻזֵּ֔ךְ וְנָבֹ֖זּוּ אַרְמְנוֹתָֽיִךְ׃

[Amos 3:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.3.11/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: An adversary, even round about the land!**
2. [And he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.47/)

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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:46` 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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