Ecclesiastes 9:17 · JPS 1917
The words of the wise spoken in quiet are more acceptable than the cry of a ruler among fools.
Who acts: words, ruler · What happens: speak, be, word, cry · To what, where: words, quiet, wise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 9:17 · 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 (words, ruler), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 acceptable | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wise | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wise | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | nmod |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 words | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 quiet | case |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoken | obl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 acceptable | cop |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 acceptable | advmod |
| 11 | acceptable | acceptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 cry | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cry | det |
| 14 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acceptable | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ruler | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ruler | det |
| 17 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cry | nmod |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 fools | case |
| 19 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ruler | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 acceptable | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | the words of the wise not said here | quiet | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the words of the wise | than the cry of a ruler among fools; acceptable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | word | the wise | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | cry | a ruler among fools | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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
דִּבְרֵ֣י חֲכָמִ֔ים בְּנַ֖חַת נִשְׁמָעִ֑ים מִזַּעֲקַ֥ת מוֹשֵׁ֖ל בַּכְּסִילִֽים׃
Ecclesiastes 9:17: 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:186 of Mova's parse database.
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