Ecclesiastes 6:12 · JPS 1917

For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Who acts: appetite · What happens: know, be, spend, tell · To what, where: life, vain life, man, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 6:12 · 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 (appetite), 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	SCONJ	_	3 knoweth	mark
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knoweth	nsubj
3	knoweth	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 good	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knoweth	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 man	case
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 days	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 days	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 days	det
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knoweth	obl:unmarked
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 life	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
18	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 life	amod
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 days	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 spendeth	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spendeth	nsubj
22	spendeth	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 life	acl:relcl
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 shadow	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shadow	det
25	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spendeth	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knoweth	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 tell	mark
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	30 tell	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knoweth	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	iobj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 him	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 him	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 him	cop
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	ccomp
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 sun	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sun	det
40	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 him	obl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knoweth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present					day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present				appetite's life		for man; good property	tree rules
3	spend	present	appetite	appetite's vain life				as a shadow	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Duration as shadow=Attribute
4	tell speech: assert	can			a man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
5	is	shall				the sun	after appetite		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

כִּ֣י מִֽי־יוֹדֵעַ֩ מַה־טּ֨וֹב לָֽאָדָ֜ם בַּֽחַיִּ֗ים מִסְפַּ֛ר יְמֵי־חַיֵּ֥י הֶבְל֖וֹ וְיַעֲשֵׂ֣ם כַּצֵּ֑ל אֲשֶׁר֙ מִֽי־יַגִּ֣יד לָֽאָדָ֔ם מַה־יִּהְיֶ֥ה אַחֲרָ֖יו תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Ecclesiastes 6:12: 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:122 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.122/