Ecclesiastes 1:17 · JPS 1917

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly — I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Who acts: I, this · What happens: apply, know, perceive, be · To what, where: heart, wisdom, madness, striving

This is Ecclesiastes 1:17 · 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, this), 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 applied	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 applied	nsubj
3	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 applied	advcl
8	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 know	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 know	mark
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	conj
13	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 folly	cc
15	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 madness	conj
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 perceived	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 perceived	nsubj
18	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 applied	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 striving	mark
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 striving	nsubj
21	also	also	ADV	_	24 striving	advmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 striving	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 striving	det
24	striving	strive	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perceived	ccomp
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 wind	case
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 striving	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 applied	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	apply	past	I	my heart		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
2	know	to-infinitive	I not said here	wisdom		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus
3	know	to-infinitive	I not said here	madness and folly		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer madness=Stimulus
4	perceive	past	I			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	this	a striving	after wind	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

וָאֶתְּנָ֤ה לִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת חָכְמָ֔ה וְדַ֥עַת הוֹלֵל֖וֹת וְשִׂכְל֑וּת יָדַ֕עְתִּי שֶׁגַּם־זֶ֥ה ה֖וּא רַעְי֥וֹן רֽוּחַ׃

Ecclesiastes 1:17: 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:16 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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