Ecclesiastes 9:8 · JPS 1917

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no oil.

Who acts: you, garments, head · What happens: let, be, lack · To what, where: oil

This is Ecclesiastes 9:8 · 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 (you, garments, head), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 garments	nmod:poss
3	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 white	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 white	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 white	advmod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lack	nsubj
12	lack	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	ccomp
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 oil	det
14	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lack	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive	thy garments		always, white property	tree rules
3	let	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	lack	infinitive	thy head	no oil		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

בְּכָל־עֵ֕ת יִהְי֥וּ בְגָדֶ֖יךָ לְבָנִ֑ים וְשֶׁ֖מֶן עַל־רֹאשְׁךָ֥ אַל־יֶחְסָֽר׃

Ecclesiastes 9:8: 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:177 of Mova's parse database.

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