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title: Amos 4:8 (JPS 1917) — So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and we… · tree and pragmatics
description: So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD. Who acts: two three cities, ye, LORD. Amos 4:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 4:8 · JPS 1917

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So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** two three cities, ye, LORD · **What happens:** wander, drink, not satisfy, not return, say · **To what, where:** water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 4:8 · 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 (two three cities, ye, 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:59
# text = So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | two three cities |  |  |  |  | unto one city | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | two three cities *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **satisfy** | past · passive | two three cities *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **not** **return** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  | unto Me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 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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וְנָע֡וּ שְׁתַּיִם֩ שָׁלֹ֨שׁ עָרִ֜ים אֶל־עִ֥יר אַחַ֛ת לִשְׁתּ֥וֹת מַ֖יִם וְלֹ֣א יִשְׂבָּ֑עוּ וְלֹֽא־שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָדַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

[Amos 4:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.8/)

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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:59` 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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