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title: Amos 5:12 (JPS 1917) — For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are… · tree and pragmatics
description: For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a ransom, and that turn aside the needy in the gate. Who acts: I, sins, that. Amos 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 5:12 · JPS 1917

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For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a ransom, and that turn aside the needy in the gate.

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**Who acts:** I, sins, that · **What happens:** know, be, afflict, take, turn · **To what, where:** transgressions, just, ransom, needy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Amos 5:12 · 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, sins, 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:76
# text = For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a ransom, and that turn aside the needy in the gate.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	manifold	manifold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	transgressions	transgression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	afflict	afflict	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	just	just	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ransom	ransom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	needy	needy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | your transgressions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | your sins |  |  |  |  | mighty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **afflict** | present |  | the just |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus just=Experiencer |
| 5 | **take** | present |  | a ransom |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ransom=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | present | that | the needy |  |  |  | in the gate; aside *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent needy=Patient in gate=Topic |

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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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כִּ֤י יָדַ֙עְתִּי֙ רַבִּ֣ים פִּשְׁעֵיכֶ֔ם וַעֲצֻמִ֖ים חַטֹּֽאתֵיכֶ֑ם צֹרְרֵ֤י צַדִּיק֙ לֹ֣קְחֵי כֹ֔פֶר וְאֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים בַּשַּׁ֥עַר הִטּֽוּ׃

[Amos 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.12/)

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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:76` 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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