Ecclesiastes 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
Who acts: wise man · What happens: be, know, interpret · To what, where: interpretation, thing
This is Ecclesiastes 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (wise man), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knoweth | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 knoweth | nsubj |
| 10 | knoweth | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 interpretation | det |
| 12 | interpretation | interpretation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knoweth | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thing | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interpretation | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | as the wise man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present | the wise man | the interpretation of a thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer interpretation=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | interpret | a thing | nom interpretation «cognition transitive»: of=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
מִ֚י כְּהֶ֣חָכָ֔ם וּמִ֥י יוֹדֵ֖עַ פֵּ֣שֶׁר דָּבָ֑ר חָכְמַ֤ת אָדָם֙ תָּאִ֣יר פָּנָ֔יו וְעֹ֥ז פָּנָ֖יו יְשֻׁנֶּֽא׃
Ecclesiastes 8:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
- A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:152 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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