Ecclesiastes 9:12 · JPS 1917

For man also knoweth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Who acts: man, race · What happens: not know, take, catch, snare, fall · To what, where: fishes, evil net, birds, snare, sons

This is Ecclesiastes 9:12 · 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 (man, race), 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	_	4 knoweth	mark
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knoweth	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 knoweth	advmod
4	knoweth	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 knoweth	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 time	nmod:poss
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knoweth	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fishes	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 fishes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fishes	det
11	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 snared	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 taken	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux:pass
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fishes	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 net	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 net	det
17	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 net	amod
18	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 snared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 snared	cc
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 birds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birds	det
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 snared	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 caught	nsubj:pass
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 caught	aux:pass
26	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 birds	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 snare	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 snare	det
29	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 caught	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 birds	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 so	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	38 snared	advmod
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 snared	aux:pass
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sons	det
35	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 snared	nsubj:pass
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 men	case
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sons	nmod
38	snared	snare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knoweth	parataxis
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 time	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 time	det
41	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 time	amod
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 snared	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 falleth	punct
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 falleth	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 falleth	nsubj
46	falleth	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 snared	advcl
47	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	46 falleth	advmod
48	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 falleth	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knoweth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present	man			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	take	present · passive		the fishes	a evil net			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in net=Location
3	catch	present · passive		the birds	the snare			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	snare	present · passive		the sons of men		time	as the fishes; as the birds	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	fall	present	race				upon sons = son; suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=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

כִּ֡י גַּם֩ לֹֽא־יֵדַ֨ע הָאָדָ֜ם אֶת־עִתּ֗וֹ כַּדָּגִים֙ שֶׁנֶּֽאֱחָזִים֙ בִּמְצוֹדָ֣ה רָעָ֔ה וְכַ֨צִּפֳּרִ֔ים הָאֲחֻז֖וֹת בַּפָּ֑ח כָּהֵ֗ם יֽוּקָשִׁים֙ בְּנֵ֣י הָֽאָדָ֔ם לְעֵ֣ת רָעָ֔ה כְּשֶׁתִּפּ֥וֹל עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם פִּתְאֹֽם׃

Ecclesiastes 9:12: 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:181 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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