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title: Amos 5:5 (JPS 1917) — But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. Who acts: you, Gilgal, Beth el. Amos 5:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 5:5 · JPS 1917

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But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

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**Who acts:** you, Gilgal, Beth el · **What happens:** not seek, enter, not pass, go, come · **To what, where:** Beth el, Gilgal, Beer sheba, captivity, nought

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This is Amos 5:5 · 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, Gilgal, Beth el), 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:69
# text = But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	el	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	enter	enter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Gilgal	Gilgal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Beer	Beer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	Gilgal	Gilgal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	captivity	captivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
32	el	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* | Beth el |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent el=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | Gilgal |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into gilgal=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **pass** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | Beer sheba |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sheba=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** | shall | Gilgal |  |  | captivity |  | surely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into captivity=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come** | shall | Beth el |  |  | nought |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to nought=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְאַֽל־תִּדְרְשׁוּ֙ בֵּֽית־אֵ֔לבֵּֽית־אֵ֔ל וְהַגִּלְגָּל֙ לֹ֣א תָבֹ֔אוּ וּבְאֵ֥ר שֶׁ֖בַע בְאֵ֥ר שֶׁ֖בַע לֹ֣א תַעֲבֹ֑רוּ כִּ֤י הַגִּלְגָּל֙ גָּלֹ֣ה יִגְלֶ֔ה וּבֵֽית־אֵ֖לבֵֽית־אֵ֖ל יִהְיֶ֥ה לְאָֽוֶן׃

[Amos 5:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.5/)

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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:69` 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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