Ecclesiastes 10:2 · JPS 1917
A wise man's understanding is at his right hand; but a fool's understanding at his left.
Who acts: understanding, wise man, fool · What happens: be, understand · To what, where: right hand, left
This is Ecclesiastes 10:2 · 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 (understanding, wise man, fool), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understanding | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 understanding | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 understanding | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fool | det |
| 14 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 understanding | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 fool | case |
| 16 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 left | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 left | nmod:poss |
| 19 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 understanding | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a wise man's understanding | man's right hand but a fool's understanding at man's left | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | a wise man | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | understand | a fool | man's left | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=agent at=place |
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
לֵ֤ב חָכָם֙ לִֽימִינ֔וֹ וְלֵ֥ב כְּסִ֖יל לִשְׂמֹאלֽוֹ׃
Ecclesiastes 10:2: 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:189 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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