Ecclesiastes 5:11 · JPS 1917

Sweet is the sleep of a labouring man, whether he eat little or much; but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Who acts: sleep, man, satiety, labouring man · What happens: be, eat, not suffer, sleep · To what, where: man

This is Ecclesiastes 5:11 · 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 (sleep, man, satiety, labouring man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sweet	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sleep	det
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sweet	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	labouring	labouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 eat	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sweet	advcl
13	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 eat	advmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 much	cc
15	much	much	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 little	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 suffer	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 suffer	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 satiety	det
19	satiety	satiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suffer	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 rich	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rich	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 satiety	nmod
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 suffer	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 suffer	advmod
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sweet	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 suffer	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sleep	mark
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 suffer	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sweet	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sleep of a labouring man		sweet property	tree rules
2	eat	present	man		little property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not suffer	future	the satiety of the rich	man		tree rules
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the satiety of the rich not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep		a labouring man			nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=agent

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

מְתוּקָה֙ שְׁנַ֣ת הָעֹבֵ֔ד אִם־מְעַ֥ט וְאִם־הַרְבֵּ֖ה יֹאכֵ֑ל וְהַשָּׂבָע֙ לֶֽעָשִׁ֔יר אֵינֶ֛נּוּ מַנִּ֥יחַֽ ל֖וֹ לִישֽׁוֹן׃

Ecclesiastes 5:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:102 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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