Ecclesiastes 2:1 · JPS 1917

I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity.

Who acts: I, this · What happens: say, come, try, enjoy, be · To what, where: heart, thee, pleasure, vanity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 2:1 · 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, this), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 heart	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Come	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 Come	punct
8	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 Come	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Come	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 try	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 try	aux
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Come	conj
14	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 try	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 mirth	case
16	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 try	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 enjoy	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 enjoy	cc
19	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 try	conj
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 enjoy	obj
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 vanity	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 vanity	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 behold	punct
25	behold	behold	INTJ	_	30 vanity	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 behold	punct
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 vanity	nsubj
28	also	also	ADV	_	30 vanity	advmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 vanity	cop
30	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I		my heart			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	infinitive				now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	future	I	thee			with mirth	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with mirth=Theme
4	enjoy	infinitive	I not said here	pleasure				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus
5	is a	past	this	vanity				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

אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּלִבִּ֔י לְכָה־נָּ֛א אֲנַסְּכָ֛ה בְשִׂמְחָ֖ה וּרְאֵ֣ה בְט֑וֹב וְהִנֵּ֥ה גַם־ה֖וּא הָֽבֶל׃

Ecclesiastes 2:1: 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:18 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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