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title: Amos 5:20 (JPS 1917) — Even very dark, and no brightness in it? · tree and pragmatics
description: Even very dark, and no brightness in it? Amos 5:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 5:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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This is Amos 5:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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: 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:87
# text = Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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הֲלֹא־חֹ֛שֶׁךְ י֥וֹם יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹא־א֑וֹר וְאָפֵ֖ל וְלֹא־נֹ֥גַֽהּ לֽוֹ׃

[Amos 5:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.86/)
2. **Even very dark, and no brightness in it?**

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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:87` 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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