Ecclesiastes 8:7 · JPS 1917

For he knoweth not that which shall be; for even when it cometh to pass, who shall declare it unto him?

Who acts: man, evil · What happens: not know, come, pass, declare · To what, where: that, evil

This is Ecclesiastes 8:7 · 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 (man, evil), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 knoweth	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knoweth	nsubj
3	knoweth	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 knoweth	advmod
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knoweth	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 be	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 that	acl:relcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cometh	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 declare	mark
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 cometh	advmod
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 cometh	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cometh	nsubj
14	cometh	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 declare	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pass	mark
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cometh	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declare	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	20 declare	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 declare	aux
20	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knoweth	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 declare	obj
22	unto	unto	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 declare	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knoweth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present	man	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	come	present	evil			tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	evil not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	declare speech: other	shall		evil	unto man	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute

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

כִּֽי־אֵינֶ֥נּוּ יֹדֵ֖עַ מַה־שֶּׁיִּֽהְיֶ֑ה כִּ֚י כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר יִֽהְיֶ֔ה מִ֖י יַגִּ֥יד לֽוֹ׃

Ecclesiastes 8:7: 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:159 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.159/