Ecclesiastes 10:1 · JPS 1917
Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.
Who acts: Dead flies, little folly · What happens: make, outweigh · To what, where: ointment, wisdom
This is Ecclesiastes 10:1 · 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 (Dead flies, little folly), 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 flies | amod |
| 2 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ointment | det |
| 5 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fetid | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 perfumer | det |
| 8 | perfumer | perfumer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ointment | nmod |
| 9 | fetid | fetid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 putrid | cc |
| 11 | putrid | putrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fetid | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 outweigh | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 outweigh | advmod |
| 14 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 outweigh | aux |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 folly | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 folly | amod |
| 17 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 outweigh | nsubj |
| 18 | outweigh | outweigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | parataxis |
| 19 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 outweigh | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 honour | cc |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wisdom | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Dead flies | the ointment the perfumer | fetid property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ointment=Product | |||
| 2 | outweigh | present · do-support | a little folly | wisdom and honour | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wisdom=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
זְב֣וּבֵי מָ֔וֶת יַבְאִ֥ישׁ יַבִּ֖יעַ שֶׁ֣מֶן רוֹקֵ֑חַ יָקָ֛ר מֵחָכְמָ֥ה מִכָּב֖וֹד סִכְל֥וּת מְעָֽט׃
Ecclesiastes 10:1: 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:188 of Mova's parse database.
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