Ecclesiastes 7:10 · JPS 1917

Say not thou: 'How was it that the former days were better than these?' for it is not out of wisdom that thou inquirest concerning this.

Who acts: thou, anger · What happens: not say, be, not be, inquire · To what, where: wisdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 7:10 · 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 (thou, anger), 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	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	advmod
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Say	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
6	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 better	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 better	nsubj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 better	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 better	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Say	ccomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 these	case
16	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 better	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 wisdom	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wisdom	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wisdom	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 wisdom	advmod
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 wisdom	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 wisdom	case
25	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	advcl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 inquirest	obl
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 inquirest	nsubj
28	inquirest	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wisdom	acl:relcl
29	concerning	concern	ADP	_	30 this	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 inquirest	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: warn
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn, form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	infinitive	thou				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	anger			than these; good property	tree rules
3	not is	present	anger		wisdom		tree rules
4	inquire speech: other	present	thou	wisdom		concern this	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

אַל־תֹּאמַר֙ מֶ֣ה הָיָ֔ה שֶׁ֤הַיָּמִים֙ הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים הָי֥וּ טוֹבִ֖ים מֵאֵ֑לֶּה כִּ֛י לֹ֥א מֵחָכְמָ֖ה שָׁאַ֥לְתָּ עַל־זֶֽה׃

Ecclesiastes 7:10: 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:132 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.132/