Ecclesiastes 1:13 · JPS 1917

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven; it is a sore task that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Who acts: I, heart, God · What happens: apply, seek, search out, do, be, give · To what, where: heart, things, heaven, sore task, sons

This is Ecclesiastes 1:13 · 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 (I, heart, God), 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	_	3 applied	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 applied	nsubj
3	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 seek	mark
7	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 applied	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 search	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 search	mark
10	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seek	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 search	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 wisdom	case
13	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 search	obl
14	concerning	concern	ADP	_	16 things	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 things	det
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 search	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 done	nsubj:pass
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux:pass
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 things	acl:relcl
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 heaven	case
21	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 task	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 task	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 task	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 task	det
26	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 task	amod
27	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	parataxis
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 given	obj
29	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 given	nsubj
30	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 given	aux
31	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 task	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 sons	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sons	det
34	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 given	iobj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 men	case
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sons	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	39 exercised	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 exercised	aux:pass
39	exercised	exercise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 given	advcl
40	therewith	therewith	ADV	_	39 exercised	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 applied	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	apply	past	I	my heart				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent heart=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	search out	to-infinitive	I not said here				by wisdom; concern all things	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wisdom=Location
4	do	present · passive		all things		heaven		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	is a	present	heart	a sore task				tree rules
6	give	present · perfect	God	a sore task	the sons of men			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient that=Theme
7	exercise	to-infinitive · passive	God not said here				therewith property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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

וְנָתַ֣תִּי אֶת־לִבִּ֗י לִדְר֤וֹשׁ וְלָתוּר֙ בַּֽחָכְמָ֔ה עַ֛ל כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר נַעֲשָׂ֖ה תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם ה֣וּא ׀ עִנְיַ֣ן רָ֗ע נָתַ֧ן אֱלֹהִ֛ים לִבְנֵ֥י הָאָדָ֖ם לַעֲנ֥וֹת בּֽוֹ׃

Ecclesiastes 1:13: 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:12 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.12/