Ecclesiastes 9:4 · JPS 1917
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Who acts: hope, living dog · What happens: join, be · To what, where: man
This is Ecclesiastes 9:4 · 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 (hope, living dog), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 is | mark |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 is | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 joined | aux:pass |
| 6 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 him | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 living | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 living | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 living | det |
| 10 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 joined | obl |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 better | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 17 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 better | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | cop |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 is | advcl |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 lion | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lion | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lion | amod |
| 24 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 better | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present · passive | to all living | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to living=Co-Patient | |||||
| 2 | be | present | hope | man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | a living dog | than a dead lion; good property | tree rules |
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
כִּי־מִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְחֻבַּ֔ר אֶ֥ל כָּל־הַחַיִּ֖ים יֵ֣שׁ בִּטָּח֑וֹן כִּֽי־לְכֶ֤לֶב חַי֙ ה֣וּא ט֔וֹב מִן־הָאַרְיֵ֖ה הַמֵּֽת׃
Ecclesiastes 9:4: 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:173 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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