Ecclesiastes 7:3 · JPS 1917
Vexation is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart may be gladdened.
Who acts: Vexation, sadness · What happens: be, gladden · To what, where: heart
This is Ecclesiastes 7:3 · 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 (Vexation, sadness), 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 | Vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | nsubj |
| 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 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 laughter | case |
| 5 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gladdened | punct |
| 7 | for | for | CCONJ | _ | 18 gladdened | cc |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sadness | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sadness | det |
| 10 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gladdened | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 countenance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 countenance | det |
| 13 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sadness | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gladdened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 gladdened | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 gladdened | aux:pass |
| 18 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 better | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Vexation | than laughter; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gladden | may · passive | the sadness of the countenance | the heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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
ט֥וֹב כַּ֖עַס מִשְּׂחֹ֑ק כִּֽי־בְרֹ֥עַ פָּנִ֖ים יִ֥יטַב לֵֽב׃
Ecclesiastes 7:3: 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:125 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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