Ecclesiastes 10:8 · JPS 1917
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.
Who acts: rich, whoso, serpent · What happens: dig, fall, break, bite · To what, where: pit, fence, rich
This is Ecclesiastes 10:8 · 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 (rich, whoso, serpent), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 diggeth | nsubj |
| 3 | diggeth | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 He | acl:relcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pit | det |
| 5 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 diggeth | obj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fall | aux |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fall | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bite | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bite | cc |
| 12 | whoso | whoso | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 breaketh | nsubj |
| 13 | breaketh | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bite | advcl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 fence | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fence | det |
| 16 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breaketh | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 breaketh | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 serpent | det |
| 19 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bite | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bite | aux |
| 21 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fall | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bite | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | a pit | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | shall | rich | pit | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result | ||||
| 3 | break | present | whoso | a fence | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fence=Location | ||||
| 4 | bite | shall | a serpent | rich | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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
חֹפֵ֥ר גּוּמָּ֖ץ בּ֣וֹ יִפּ֑וֹל וּפֹרֵ֥ץ גָּדֵ֖ר יִשְּׁכֶ֥נּוּ נָחָֽשׁ׃
Ecclesiastes 10:8: 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:195 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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