Ecclesiastes 2:2 · JPS 1917
I said of laughter: 'It is mad'; and of mirth: 'What doth it accomplish?'
Who acts: I, laughter · What happens: say, be, accomplish · To what, where: mirth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 2:2 · 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 (I, laughter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 laughter | case |
| 4 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mad | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mad | cop |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 mirth | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mirth | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mirth | case |
| 14 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 accomplish | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 accomplish | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 accomplish | obj |
| 18 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 accomplish | aux |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 accomplish | nsubj |
| 20 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mirth | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 accomplish | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 accomplish | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | of laughter; of mirth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | laughter | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accomplish | present · do-support | laughter | mirth | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
לִשְׂח֖וֹק אָמַ֣רְתִּי מְהוֹלָ֑ל וּלְשִׂמְחָ֖ה מַה־זֹּ֥ה עֹשָֽׂה׃
Ecclesiastes 2:2: 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:19 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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