Ecclesiastes 8:4 · JPS 1917
Forasmuch as the king's word hath power; and who may say unto him: 'What doest thou?'
Who acts: word, thou, king · What happens: have, say, do, word · To what, where: power · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 8:4 · 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 (word, thou, king), 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 | Forasmuch | forasmuch | SCONJ | _ | 7 hath | mark |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 1 Forasmuch | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hath | nsubj |
| 7 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | advcl |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hath | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 say | cc |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 say | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | aux |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 say | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 doest | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 doest | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 doest | obj |
| 19 | doest | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 doest | nsubj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 doest | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 doest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the king's word | power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | may | unto king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | present | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | word | the king | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
בַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דְּבַר־מֶ֖לֶךְ שִׁלְט֑וֹן וּמִ֥י יֹֽאמַר־ל֖וֹ מַֽה־תַּעֲשֶֽׂה׃
Ecclesiastes 8:4: 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:156 of Mova's parse database.
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