Ecclesiastes 6:9 · JPS 1917
Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Who acts: seeing, this · What happens: be, wander · To what, where: vanity, desire
This is Ecclesiastes 6:9 · 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 (seeing, 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 | Better | better | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Better | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seeing | det |
| 4 | seeing | see | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Better | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seeing | nmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 wandering | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wandering | det |
| 10 | wandering | wandering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Better | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 desire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 desire | det |
| 13 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wandering | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 vanity | punct |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 vanity | nsubj |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 vanity | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 vanity | cop |
| 18 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Better | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 striving | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 striving | det |
| 21 | striving | strive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vanity | conj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 wind | case |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 striving | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the seeing of the eyes | than the wandering of the desire; better property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | vanity and a striving after wind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wander | the desire | nom wandering «act transitive»: of=patient |
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
ט֛וֹב מַרְאֵ֥ה עֵינַ֖יִם מֵֽהֲלָךְ־נָ֑פֶשׁ גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃
Ecclesiastes 6:9: 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:119 of Mova's parse database.
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