--- title: Amos 5:3 (JPS 1917) — For thus saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand sha… · tree and pragmatics description: For thus saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, of the house of Israel. Who acts: Lord GOD, city, hundred, that. 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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 GOD, city, hundred, that), 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:67 # text = For thus saith the Lord GOD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, of the house of Israel. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 mark _ _ 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 6 det _ _ 5 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 forth forth ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 19 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 forth forth ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 30 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obj _ _ 31 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past | the city | a thousand | | | | forth *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme | | 3 | **have** | shall | the city | a hundred | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | participle | a hundred *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | | a hundred | | | | forth *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hundred=Theme | | 6 | **have** | shall | that | ten | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **leave** | participle | ten *not said here* | | | | | of the house of Israel | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of house=Initial\_Location | 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} כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הָעִ֛יר הַיֹּצֵ֥את אֶ֖לֶף תַּשְׁאִ֣יר מֵאָ֑ה וְהַיּוֹצֵ֥את מֵאָ֛ה תַּשְׁאִ֥יר עֲשָׂרָ֖ה לְבֵ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס [Amos 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.3/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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