Ecclesiastes 8:12 · JPS 1917
because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days — though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him;
Who acts: sinner, I, evil · What happens: do, prolong, know, be, fear · To what, where: evil, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 8:12 · 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 (sinner, I, 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 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 doeth | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sinner | det |
| 3 | sinner | sinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doeth | nsubj |
| 4 | doeth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doeth | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 doeth | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prolongeth | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 prolongeth | cc |
| 11 | prolongeth | prolong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doeth | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 days | nmod:poss |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 prolongeth | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 know | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doeth | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 well | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 well | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 well | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 well | cop |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 know | ccomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 well | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fear | nsubj |
| 27 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 them | acl:relcl |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 fear | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fear | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 fear | nsubj |
| 31 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 them | acl:relcl |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 Him | case |
| 33 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fear | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 doeth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a sinner | evil | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | prolong | present | a sinner not said here | day | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | evil | with sons = son; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fear | present | God | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | fear | present | before sinner | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֹטֶ֗א עֹשֶׂ֥ה רָ֛ע מְאַ֖ת וּמַאֲרִ֣יךְ ל֑וֹ כִּ֚י גַּם־יוֹדֵ֣עַ אָ֔נִי אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִהְיֶה־טּוֹב֙ לְיִרְאֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִֽירְא֖וּ מִלְּפָנָֽיו׃
Ecclesiastes 8:12: 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:164 of Mova's parse database.
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