--- title: Amos 5:18 (JPS 1917) — Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! · tree and pragmatics description: Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! Who acts: Woe. Amos 5:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.82/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Amos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO/) / [chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO/5/) / [5:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.18/) / JPS 1 # Amos 5:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! **Who acts:** Woe · **What happens:** desire This is Amos 5:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (Woe), 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:82 # text = Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! 1 Woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 unto unto ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 desire desire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: exclamation - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **desire** | present | Woe unto you | | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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} ה֥וֹי הַמִּתְאַוִּ֖ים אֶת־י֣וֹם יְהוָ֑ה לָמָּה־זֶּ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם י֥וֹם יְהוָ֖ה הוּא־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְלֹא־אֽוֹר׃ [Amos 5:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.18/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD!** 2. [Wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.83/) 3. [It is darkness, and not light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.84/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:AMO:82` 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. - ← previous: [Amos 5:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.81/) - next →: [Amos 5:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.83/) - ↑ back to [Amos 5:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.18/)