Ecclesiastes 7:2 · JPS 1917
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.
Who acts: that, living · What happens: be, go, lay · To what, where: house, end, oil
This is Ecclesiastes 7:2 · 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 (that, living), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mourning | case |
| 10 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 house | mark |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 feasting | case |
| 19 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 end | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 end | mark |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 end | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 end | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 men | det |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lay | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 living | det |
| 32 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 lay | aux |
| 34 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 end | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lay | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the house of mourning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the house of feasting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the end | of all men | tree rules | |||
| 5 | lay | future | the living | oil | to living's heart | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
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
ט֞וֹב לָלֶ֣כֶת אֶל־בֵּֽית־אֵ֗בֶל מִלֶּ֙כֶת֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֕ר ה֖וּא ס֣וֹף כָּל־הָאָדָ֑ם וְהַחַ֖י יִתֵּ֥ן אֶל־לִבּֽוֹ׃
Ecclesiastes 7:2: 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:124 of Mova's parse database.
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