Ecclesiastes 7:16 · JPS 1917
Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: not be, make, destroy · To what, where: thyself
This is Ecclesiastes 7:16 · 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 (you, thou), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 righteous | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 righteous | advmod |
| 3 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | overmuch | overmuch | ADV | _ | 3 righteous | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 6 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | cc |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 righteous | parataxis |
| 8 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | overwise | overwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 destroy | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 destroy | advmod |
| 12 | shouldest | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 destroy | aux |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 destroy | nsubj |
| 14 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 righteous | parataxis |
| 15 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 14 destroy | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 righteous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative | you not said here | overmuch, righteous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | thyself | overwise property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thyself=Product | ||||
| 3 | destroy | should | thou | thyself | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=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
אַל־תְּהִ֤י צַדִּיק֙ הַרְבֵּ֔ה וְאַל־תִּתְחַכַּ֖ם יוֹתֵ֑ר לָ֖מָּה תִּשּׁוֹמֵֽם׃
Ecclesiastes 7:16: 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:138 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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