Ecclesiastes 6:2 · JPS 1917

a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Who acts: God, stranger, this · What happens: give, want, desire, not give, eat, be · To what, where: riches, man, nothing, power, him, vanity

This is Ecclesiastes 6:2 · 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 (God, stranger, this), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 whom	case
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 giveth	obl
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 giveth	nsubj
6	giveth	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
7	riches	riches	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 giveth	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wealth	punct
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riches	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 honour	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 honour	cc
12	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riches	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wanteth	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 wanteth	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanteth	nsubj
17	wanteth	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giveth	advcl
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 wanteth	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 soul	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 soul	nmod:poss
21	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nothing	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	21 soul	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 desireth	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 desireth	nsubj
26	desireth	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 all	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 giveth	punct
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	30 giveth	cc
29	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 giveth	nsubj
30	giveth	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wanteth	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 giveth	iobj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 giveth	advmod
33	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 giveth	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 power	acl
36	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	35 eat	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 eateth	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 eateth	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 stranger	det
40	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eateth	nsubj
41	eateth	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 giveth	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 eateth	obj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 vanity	punct
44	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 vanity	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 vanity	cop
46	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 disease	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 disease	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 disease	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 disease	cop
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 disease	det
52	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 disease	amod
53	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 vanity	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	God	riches and wealth and honour	a man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent riches=Theme to whom=Recipient
2	want	present	God	nothing		for God's soul of all	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
3	desire	present	God				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
4	not give	present	God	power	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient power=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	God not said here	power not said here		thereof property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat	present	a stranger	power			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	is a	present	this	vanity and a evil disease			tree rules
8	is a	present	stranger	a evil disease			tree rules

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

אִ֣ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ הָאֱלֹהִ֡ים עֹשֶׁר֩ וּנְכָסִ֨ים וְכָב֜וֹד וְֽאֵינֶ֨נּוּ חָסֵ֥ר לְנַפְשׁ֣וֹ ׀ מִכֹּ֣ל אֲשֶׁר־יִתְאַוֶּ֗ה וְלֹֽא־יַשְׁלִיטֶ֤נּוּ הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ לֶאֱכֹ֣ל מִמֶּ֔נּוּ כִּ֛י אִ֥ישׁ נָכְרִ֖י יֹֽאכֲלֶ֑נּוּ זֶ֥ה הֶ֛בֶל וָחֳלִ֥י רָ֖ע הֽוּא׃

Ecclesiastes 6:2: 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:112 of Mova's parse database.

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