Ecclesiastes 7:12 · JPS 1917
For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.
Who acts: wisdom, money, excellency · What happens: be, have · To what, where: defence, wisdom
This is Ecclesiastes 7:12 · 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 (wisdom, money, excellency), 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 | _ | 5 defence | mark |
| 2 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defence | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 defence | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 defence | det |
| 5 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 defence | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 as | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 defence | mark |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 defence | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 defence | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 defence | det |
| 12 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defence | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 preserveth | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 preserveth | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 excellency | det |
| 16 | excellency | excellency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 preserveth | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 knowledge | case |
| 18 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 excellency | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 preserveth | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 preserveth | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 preserveth | mark |
| 22 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 preserveth | nsubj |
| 23 | preserveth | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 defence | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 life | det |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 preserveth | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 hath | nsubj |
| 29 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 him | acl:relcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hath | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 defence | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wisdom | a defence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | money | a defence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the excellency of knowledge | preserve property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | wisdom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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
כִּ֛י בְּצֵ֥ל הַֽחָכְמָ֖ה בְּצֵ֣ל הַכָּ֑סֶף וְיִתְר֣וֹן דַּ֔עַת הַֽחָכְמָ֖ה תְּחַיֶּ֥ה בְעָלֶֽיהָ׃
Ecclesiastes 7:12: 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:134 of Mova's parse database.
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