Ecclesiastes 5:14 · JPS 1917
As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he go back as he came, and shall take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Who acts: evil · What happens: come, go back, take, carry away · To what, where: nothing, labour, hand
This is Ecclesiastes 5:14 · 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 (evil), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | advcl |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 womb | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 womb | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 9 | womb | womb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 11 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 go | xcomp |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 take | cc |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 labour | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 labour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carry | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 carry | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 carry | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 carry | aux |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 labour | acl:relcl |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 carry | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carry | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evil | of evil's mother's womb; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of womb=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go back | shall | evil | naked property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | evil | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | shall | evil not said here | nothing | for evil's labour | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for labour=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | carry away | may | evil | evil's labour | evil's hand | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in hand=Location |
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
כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר יָצָא֙ מִבֶּ֣טֶן אִמּ֔וֹ עָר֛וֹם יָשׁ֥וּב לָלֶ֖כֶת כְּשֶׁבָּ֑א וּמְא֙וּמָה֙ לֹא־יִשָּׂ֣א בַעֲמָל֔וֹ שֶׁיֹּלֵ֖ךְ בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
Ecclesiastes 5:14: 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:105 of Mova's parse database.
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