Ecclesiastes 9:11 · JPS 1917

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Who acts: I, race, time · What happens: return, see, not be, happen · To what, where: sun, riches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 9:11 · 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, race, time), 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 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	conj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swift	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 swift	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 race	det
12	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swift	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 swift	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 swift	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 swift	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swift	det
17	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 battle	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 battle	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 battle	det
21	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swift	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 strong	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 strong	det
24	strong	strong	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 battle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bread	punct
26	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 bread	cc:preconj
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 bread	advmod
28	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swift	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 wise	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wise	det
31	wise	wise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bread	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 riches	punct
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	35 riches	cc
34	yet	yet	ADV	_	35 riches	advmod
35	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swift	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 men	case
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 riches	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 understanding	case
39	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 men	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 favour	punct
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	43 favour	cc
42	yet	yet	ADV	_	43 favour	advmod
43	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swift	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 men	case
45	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 favour	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 skill	case
47	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 men	nmod
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 happeneth	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 happeneth	cc
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 happeneth	nsubj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 chance	cc
52	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 time	conj
53	happeneth	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 them	case
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 happeneth	obl
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 them	det
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	I not said here		the sun		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	present	the race			to the swift nor the battle to the strong neither bread to the wise nor riches to men of understanding nor favour to men of skill	tree rules
4	happen	present	time and chance	riches = rich			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

שַׁ֜בְתִּי וְרָאֹ֣ה תַֽחַת־הַשֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ כִּ֣י לֹא֩ לַקַּלִּ֨ים הַמֵּר֜וֹץ וְלֹ֧א לַגִּבּוֹרִ֣ים הַמִּלְחָמָ֗ה וְ֠גַם לֹ֣א לַחֲכָמִ֥ים לֶ֙חֶם֙ וְגַ֨ם לֹ֤א לַנְּבֹנִים֙ עֹ֔שֶׁר וְגַ֛ם לֹ֥א לַיֹּדְעִ֖ים חֵ֑ן כִּי־עֵ֥ת וָפֶ֖גַע יִקְרֶ֥ה אֶת־כֻּלָּֽם׃

Ecclesiastes 9:11: 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:180 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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