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title: Amos 5:6 (JPS 1917) — Seek the LORD, and live — lest He break out like fire in the house o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seek the LORD, and live — lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel — Who acts: you, LORD, house. Amos 5:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 5:6 · JPS 1917

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Seek the LORD, and live — lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel —

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**Who acts:** you, LORD, house · **What happens:** seek, live, break out, devour, quench · **To what, where:** LORD, house, Bethel

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This is Amos 5:6 · 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, LORD, house), 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:70
# text = Seek the LORD, and live — lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel —
1	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	devour	devour	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Bethel	Bethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- 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 | **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break out** | infinitive | LORD |  |  | the house of Joseph |  | like fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 4 | **devour** | infinitive | house |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **quench** | to-infinitive | LORD *not said here* | house |  | Bethel |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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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דִּרְשׁ֥וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה וִֽחְי֑וּ פֶּן־יִצְלַ֤ח כָּאֵשׁ֙ בֵּ֣ית יוֹסֵ֔ף וְאָכְלָ֥ה וְאֵין־מְכַבֶּ֖ה לְבֵֽית־אֵֽלבֵֽית־אֵֽל׃

[Amos 5:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.6/)

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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:70` 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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