Ecclesiastes 6:8 · JPS 1917

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or the poor man that hath understanding, in walking before the living?

Who acts: wise, poor man · What happens: have, walk · To what, where: more, understanding, living

This is Ecclesiastes 6:8 · 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 (wise, poor 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 advantage	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 advantage	det
3	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hath	obl
4	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wise	det
6	wise	wise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hath	nsubj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hath	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 fool	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fool	det
10	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hath	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 man	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wise	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hath	nsubj
17	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
18	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hath	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 walking	punct
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 walking	mark
21	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 hath	advcl
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 living	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 living	det
24	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 walking	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hath	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the wise or the poor man	more		for what advantage	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	have	present	the poor man	understanding			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient
3	walk	gerund	the poor man not said here		the living		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before living=Trajectory

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

כִּ֛י מַה־יּוֹתֵ֥ר לֶחָכָ֖ם מִֽן־הַכְּסִ֑יל מַה־לֶּעָנִ֣י יוֹדֵ֔עַ לַהֲלֹ֖ךְ נֶ֥גֶד הַחַיִּֽים׃

Ecclesiastes 6:8: 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:118 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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