Ecclesiastes 9:3 · JPS 1917

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Who acts: This, heart, madness, things · What happens: be, do, live, go · To what, where: evil, all, sun, heart, dead

This is Ecclesiastes 9:3 · 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 (This, heart, madness, things), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 evil	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 evil	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 evil	det
4	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 evil	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 done	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux:pass
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 all	acl:relcl
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 is	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 is	mark
15	there	there	PRON	_	16 is	expl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 evil	ccomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 event	nummod
18	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj
19	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 event	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 full	punct
22	yea	yea	INTJ	_	33 full	discourse
23	also	also	ADV	_	33 full	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heart	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heart	det
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sons	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sons	det
29	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 heart	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 men	case
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sons	nmod
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 full	cop
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evil	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 evil	case
35	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 heart	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 heart	cc
38	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 heart	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 heart	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 heart	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 heart	nmod:poss
42	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	conj
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 live	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 live	nsubj
45	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 heart	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 go	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 go	cc
48	after	after	ADP	_	49 that	case
49	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 go	obl
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 go	nsubj
51	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 heart	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 dead	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 dead	det
54	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 go	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 evil	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a evil	all			tree rules
2	do	present · passive			the sun			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	is	present	the heart of the sons of men				of evil; full property	tree rules
4	is	present	madness		sons's heart			tree rules
5	live	present	things = thing					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	present	things = thing		the dead	after that		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dead=Initial_Location

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

זֶ֣ה ׀ רָ֗ע בְּכֹ֤ל אֲשֶֽׁר־נַעֲשָׂה֙ תַּ֣חַת הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כִּֽי־מִקְרֶ֥ה אֶחָ֖ד לַכֹּ֑ל וְגַ֣ם לֵ֣ב בְּֽנֵי־הָ֠אָדָם מָלֵא־רָ֨ע וְהוֹלֵל֤וֹת בִּלְבָבָם֙ בְּחַיֵּיהֶ֔ם וְאַחֲרָ֖יו אֶל־הַמֵּתִֽים׃

Ecclesiastes 9:3: 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:172 of Mova's parse database.

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