Ecclesiastes 7:26 · JPS 1917
and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Who acts: I, heart, whoso, oppression · What happens: find, be, please, escape, take · To what, where: woman, snares, God, sinner
This is Ecclesiastes 7:26 · 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, heart, whoso, oppression), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 find | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 bitter | advmod |
| 5 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitter | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 snares | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snares | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 snares | cop |
| 14 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 woman | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nets | cc |
| 16 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 snares | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hands | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hands | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 woman | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 bands | case |
| 22 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hands | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 escape | punct |
| 24 | whoso | whoso | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 pleaseth | nsubj |
| 25 | pleaseth | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 escape | csubj |
| 26 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 pleaseth | obj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 escape | aux |
| 28 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 find | parataxis |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 escape | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 taken | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 taken | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sinner | det |
| 34 | sinner | sinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 taken | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 taken | aux:pass |
| 37 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 escape | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 taken | obl:agent |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | the woman and oppression's hands as bands | bitter property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | snares and nets's heart | snares and nets | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | please | present | whoso | God | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | escape | shall | from oppression | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | take | shall · passive | oppression | the sinner | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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
וּמוֹצֶ֨א אֲנִ֜י מַ֣ר מִמָּ֗וֶת אֶת־הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ אֲשֶׁר־הִ֨יא מְצוֹדִ֧ים וַחֲרָמִ֛ים לִבָּ֖הּ אֲסוּרִ֣ים יָדֶ֑יהָ ט֞וֹב לִפְנֵ֤י הָאֱלֹהִים֙ יִמָּלֵ֣ט מִמֶּ֔נָּה וְחוֹטֵ֖א יִלָּ֥כֶד בָּֽהּ׃
Ecclesiastes 7:26: 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:148 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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