Ecclesiastes 9:16 · JPS 1917

Then said I: 'Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'

Who acts: I, Wisdom, man · What happens: say, be, despise, not hear, word · To what, where: wisdom, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 9:16 · 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, Wisdom, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
6	Wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 better	cop
8	better	better	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 said	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 strength	case
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 despised	punct
12	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	19 despised	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wisdom	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 despised	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 despised	aux:pass
19	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 better	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 words	nmod:poss
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 heard	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	aux:pass
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 heard	advmod
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 despised	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Wisdom			than strength; better property	tree rules
3	despise	present · passive		the poor man's wisdom		nevertheless property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	not hear	present · passive		man's words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	word		man				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

וְאָמַ֣רְתִּי אָ֔נִי טוֹבָ֥ה חָכְמָ֖ה מִגְּבוּרָ֑ה וְחָכְמַ֤ת הַמִּסְכֵּן֙ בְּזוּיָ֔ה וּדְבָרָ֖יו אֵינָ֥ם נִשְׁמָעִֽים׃

Ecclesiastes 9:16: 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:185 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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