Ecclesiastes 7:23 · JPS 1917
All this have I tried by wisdom; I said: 'I will get wisdom'; but it was far from me.
Who acts: I, wisdom · What happens: try, say, get, be · To what, where: this, wisdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 7:23 · 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 (I, wisdom), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tried | obj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wisdom | case |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 far | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 far | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 far | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 far | cop |
| 22 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tried | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 far | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · perfect | I | this | by wisdom | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | future | I | wisdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | wisdom | from me; far 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
כָּל־זֹ֖ה נִסִּ֣יתִי בַֽחָכְמָ֑ה אָמַ֣רְתִּי אֶחְכָּ֔מָה וְהִ֖יא רְחוֹקָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי׃
Ecclesiastes 7:23: 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:145 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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