Ecclesiastes 7:8 · JPS 1917
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Who acts: end, patient · What happens: be
This is Ecclesiastes 7:8 · 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 (end, patient), 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 | good | 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 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Better | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 beginning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beginning | det |
| 10 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nmod |
| 11 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 10 beginning | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 better | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 better | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 patient | det |
| 15 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 better | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spirit | case |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patient | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 better | cop |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Better | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 proud | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 proud | det |
| 22 | proud | proud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 better | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 spirit | case |
| 24 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 proud | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- 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 end of a thing than the beginning | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the patient in spirit | than the proud in spirit; good property | 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
ט֛וֹב אַחֲרִ֥ית דָּבָ֖ר מֵֽרֵאשִׁית֑וֹ ט֥וֹב אֶֽרֶךְ־ר֖וּחַ מִגְּבַהּ־רֽוּחַ׃
Ecclesiastes 7:8: 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:130 of Mova's parse database.
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