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title: Amos 4:9 (JPS 1917) — I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your g… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD. Who acts: I, palmer worm, ye, LORD. Amos 4:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and
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# Amos 4:9 · JPS 1917

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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** I, palmer worm, ye, LORD · **What happens:** smite, devour, not return, say · **To what, where:** you, multitude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 4:9 · 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, palmer worm, 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:60
# text = I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured; yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blasting	blasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mildew	mildew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	olive	olive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
28	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	palmer	palmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	39	nsubj	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
40	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | present · perfect | I | you |  |  |  | with blasting and mildew | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with blasting=Instrument |
| 2 | **devour** | present · perfect | the palmer worm | the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **return** | present · perfect | ye |  |  |  |  | unto Me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **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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הִכֵּ֣יתִי אֶתְכֶם֮ בַּשִּׁדָּפ֣וֹן וּבַיֵּרָקוֹן֒ הַרְבּ֨וֹת גַּנּוֹתֵיכֶ֧ם וְכַרְמֵיכֶ֛ם וּתְאֵנֵיכֶ֥ם וְזֵיתֵיכֶ֖ם יֹאכַ֣ל הַגָּזָ֑ם וְלֹֽא־שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עָדַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ס

[Amos 4:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.9/)

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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:60` of Mova's parse database.

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