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title: Amos 4:1 (JPS 1917) — Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords: 'Bring, that we may feast.' Who acts: you, kine, we. Amos 4:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 4:1 · JPS 1917

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Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords: 'Bring, that we may feast.'

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**Who acts:** you, kine, we · **What happens:** hear, be, oppress, crush, say, bring · **To what, where:** word, mountain, poor, needy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 4:1 · 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 (you, kine, we), 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:52
# text = Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords: 'Bring, that we may feast.'
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bashan	Bashan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Samaria	Samaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	oppress	oppress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	crush	crush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	needy	needy	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | this word |  |  |  | ye's kine of Bashan *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | ye's kine of Bashan |  |  | the mountain |  | of Samaria | tree rules |
| 3 | **oppress** | present | ye's kine of Bashan | the poor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crush** | present | ye's kine of Bashan | the needy |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needy=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ye's kine of Bashan |  |  |  |  | unto their lords | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bring** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **feast** | may | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: 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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שִׁמְע֞וּ הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֗ה פָּר֤וֹת הַבָּשָׁן֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּהַ֣ר שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן הָעֹשְׁק֣וֹת דַּלִּ֔ים הָרֹצְצ֖וֹת אֶבְיוֹנִ֑ים הָאֹמְרֹ֥ת לַאֲדֹֽנֵיהֶ֖ם הָבִ֥יאָה וְנִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

[Amos 4:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.1/)

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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:52` 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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