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title: Amos 1:8 (JPS 1917) — And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD. Who acts: I, remnant, Lord GOD. Amos 1:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Amos 1:8 · JPS 1917

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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

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**Who acts:** I, remnant, Lord GOD · **What happens:** cut off, hold, turn, perish, say · **To what, where:** inhabitant, Ashdod, sceptre, Ashkelon, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 1:8 · 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 (I, remnant, Lord GOD), 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:7
# text = And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ashdod	Ashdod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	holdeth	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ashkelon	Ashkelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ekron	Ekron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Philistines	Philistines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	GOD	GOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **cut off** | future | I | the inhabitant |  | Ashdod |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme from ashdod=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hold** | present |  | the sceptre |  | Ashkelon |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | future | I | My hand |  |  |  | against Ekron | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **perish** | shall | the remnant of the Philistines |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lord GOD |  |  |  |  |  | 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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וְהִכְרַתִּ֤י יוֹשֵׁב֙ מֵֽאַשְׁדּ֔וֹד וְתוֹמֵ֥ךְ שֵׁ֖בֶט מֵֽאַשְׁקְל֑וֹן וַהֲשִׁיב֨וֹתִי יָדִ֜י עַל־עֶקְר֗וֹן וְאָֽבְדוּ֙ שְׁאֵרִ֣ית פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃פ

[Amos 1:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.1.8/)

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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:7` 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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