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title: Amos 4:12 (JPS 1917) — Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; because I will do this… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Who acts: I. Amos 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 4:12 · JPS 1917

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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, prepare, meet · **To what, where:** this, God

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This is Amos 4:12 · 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), 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:63
# text = Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
27	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | I |  |  |  |  | unto thee; Israel *vocative*; therefore, thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | future | I | this |  |  |  | unto thee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | thy God |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Co-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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לָכֵ֕ן כֹּ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ֖ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עֵ֚קֶב כִּֽי־זֹ֣את אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לָּ֔ךְ הִכּ֥וֹן לִקְרַאת־אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

[Amos 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.12/)

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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:63` 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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