Ecclesiastes 8:17 · JPS 1917

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Who acts: I, man, wise man, God · What happens: behold, not find out, do, labour, seek out, not find · To what, where: work, sun

This is Ecclesiastes 8:17 · 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, man, wise man, 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	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 beheld	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 work	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 God	case
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 work	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 find	mark
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beheld	ccomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 find	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 work	det
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 done	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 work	acl:relcl
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 sun	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 find	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 find	mark
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 labour	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 labour	nsubj
29	labour	labour	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	39 find	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 seek	mark
31	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 labour	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seek	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	31 seek	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 find	punct
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	39 find	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 find	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 find	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 find	advmod
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 find	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 find	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 further	punct
42	yea	yea	INTJ	_	43 further	discourse
43	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	59 able	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 think	punct
45	though	though	SCONJ	_	49 think	mark
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 man	det
47	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 man	amod
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 think	nsubj
49	think	think	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	39 find	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 know	mark
51	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 think	xcomp
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 know	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 able	punct
54	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	59 able	cc
55	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 able	aux
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 able	nsubj
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 able	advmod
58	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 able	cop
59	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 find	conj
60	to	to	PART	_	61 find	mark
61	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 able	xcomp
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 find	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	past	I	all work of God		then		tree rules
2	not find out	can	man	the work				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
3	do	present · passive		the work	the sun			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	labour	infinitive	a man					tree rules
5	seek out	to-infinitive	a man not said here	work				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	not find	shall	man	work				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	think speech: other	infinitive	a wise man					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	know	to-infinitive	a wise man not said here	work				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
9	not is	shall	man				able, far property	tree rules
10	find	to-infinitive	man not said here	work				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
11	work		God					nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

וְרָאִיתִי֮ אֶת־כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה הָאֱלֹהִים֒ כִּי֩ לֹ֨א יוּכַ֜ל הָאָדָ֗ם לִמְצוֹא֙ אֶת־הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נַעֲשָׂ֣ה תַֽחַת־הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ בְּ֠שֶׁל אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַעֲמֹ֧ל הָאָדָ֛ם לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ וְלֹ֣א יִמְצָ֑א וְגַ֨ם אִם־יֹאמַ֤ר הֶֽחָכָם֙ לָדַ֔עַת לֹ֥א יוּכַ֖ל לִמְצֹֽא׃

Ecclesiastes 8:17: 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:169 of Mova's parse database.

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