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title: Amos 5:23 (JPS 1917) — Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries. Who acts: thou, Me, songs, thy. Amos 5:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 5:23 · JPS 1917

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Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries.

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**Who acts:** thou, Me, songs, thy · **What happens:** take away, let, not hear, noise, sing · **To what, where:** noise, Me, melody

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This is Amos 5:23 · 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 (thou, Me, songs, thy), 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:90
# text = Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	away	away	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	psalteries	psaltery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | infinitive | thou | the noise of thy songs |  |  |  | from Me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | Me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | infinitive | Me *not said here* | the melody of thy psalteries |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer melody=Stimulus |
| 4 | **noise** |  | thy songs |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **sing** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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הָסֵ֥ר מֵעָלַ֖י הֲמ֣וֹן שִׁרֶ֑יךָ וְזִמְרַ֥ת נְבָלֶ֖יךָ לֹ֥א אֶשְׁמָֽע׃

[Amos 5:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.23/)

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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:90` 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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