Ecclesiastes 5:15 · JPS 1917

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?

Who acts: this, evil · What happens: be, come, go, have, labour · To what, where: grievous evil, points, profit

This is Ecclesiastes 5:15 · 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 (this, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 evil	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 evil	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	7 evil	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 evil	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 evil	det
6	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 evil	amod
7	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 points	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 points	det
12	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 go	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
18	shall	shall	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 evil	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hath	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hath	cc
23	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	24 profit	det
24	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hath	obj
25	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 evil	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hath	nsubj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 laboureth	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laboureth	nsubj
29	laboureth	labour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hath	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laboureth	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 evil	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	a grievous evil			tree rules
2	come	past	evil				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	shall	evil		all points		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in point=Location
4	have	present	evil	what profit			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Patient
5	labour	present	evil			for the wind	vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=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

וְגַם־זֹה֙ רָעָ֣ה חוֹלָ֔ה כָּל־עֻמַּ֥ת שֶׁבָּ֖א כֵּ֣ן יֵלֵ֑ךְ וּמַה־יִּתְר֣וֹן ל֔וֹ שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל לָרֽוּחַ׃

Ecclesiastes 5:15: 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:106 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.106/