Ecclesiastes 8:11 · JPS 1917

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil;

What happens: not execute, set, do · To what, where: sentence, heart, evil

This is Ecclesiastes 8:11 · 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: 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	9 executed	mark
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 executed	nsubj:pass
3	against	against	ADP	_	6 work	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 work	det
5	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 work	amod
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sentence	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 executed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 executed	advmod
9	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 set	advcl
10	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	9 executed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 executed	punct
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 set	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heart	det
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sons	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sons	det
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heart	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 men	case
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sons	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 set	aux:pass
21	fully	fully	ADV	_	22 set	advmod
22	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 set	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 set	advcl
27	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not execute	present · passive	sentence against a evil work	speedily property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	set	present · passive	the heart of the sons of men	in sons = son; fully, therefore property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in they=Destination
3	do	to-infinitive	evil		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality

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

אֲשֶׁר֙ אֵין־נַעֲשָׂ֣ה פִתְגָ֔ם מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה מְהֵרָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֡ן מָלֵ֞א לֵ֧ב בְּֽנֵי־הָאָדָ֛ם בָּהֶ֖ם לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת רָֽע׃

Ecclesiastes 8:11: 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:163 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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