Ecclesiastes 8:15 · JPS 1917

So I commended mirth, that a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, and that this should accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

Who acts: I, man, this, God · What happens: commend, have, eat, drink, be, accompany · To what, where: mirth, better thing, sun, man, labour, days

This is Ecclesiastes 8:15 · 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, man, this, God), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 commended	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 commended	nsubj
3	commended	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 commended	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hath	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 hath	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hath	nsubj
9	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 commended	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 thing	det
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hath	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 sun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 eat	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hath	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drink	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drink	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 drink	mark
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 eat	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 merry	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 merry	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	28 merry	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 merry	cop
28	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eat	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 accompany	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 accompany	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 accompany	mark
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 accompany	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 accompany	aux
34	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hath	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 accompany	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 labour	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 labour	nmod:poss
38	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 accompany	obl
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 days	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 days	det
41	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 accompany	obl:unmarked
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 life	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 life	nmod:poss
44	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 days	nmod
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 given	obj
46	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 given	nsubj
47	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 given	aux
48	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 days	acl:relcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 given	iobj
50	under	under	ADP	_	52 sun.	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sun.	det
52	sun.	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 given	obl

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commend	past	I	mirth					tree rules
2	have	present	a man	no better thing		the sun			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	a man not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	to-infinitive	a man not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive	a man not said here					merry property	tree rules
6	accompany	should	this	man		man's labour	day		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in labour=Destination
7	give	present · perfect	God	all days of man's life	man	the sun.			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme

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

וְשִׁבַּ֤חְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ אֶת־הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֵֽין־ט֤וֹב לָֽאָדָם֙ תַּ֣חַת הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כִּ֛י אִם־לֶאֱכ֥וֹל וְלִשְׁתּ֖וֹת וְלִשְׂמ֑וֹחַ וְה֞וּא יִלְוֶ֣נּוּ בַעֲמָל֗וֹ יְמֵ֥י חַיָּ֛יו אֲשֶׁר־נָֽתַן־ל֥וֹ הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Ecclesiastes 8:15: 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:167 of Mova's parse database.

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