Ecclesiastes 10:10 · JPS 1917

If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength; but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Who acts: iron, one, serpent, wisdom · What happens: be, not whet, put, direct · To what, where: edge

This is Ecclesiastes 10:10 · 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 (iron, one, serpent, wisdom), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 blunt	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 iron	det
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blunt	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 blunt	cop
5	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 put	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whet	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 whet	cc
8	one	one	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 whet	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 whet	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 whet	advmod
11	whet	whet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 blunt	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whet	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blunt	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 put	advmod
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 put	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 strength	case
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 strength	amod
21	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 profitable	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 profitable	cc
24	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 profitable	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 profitable	cop
26	profitable	profitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 put	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 direct	mark
28	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wisdom	csubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	the iron			blunt property	tree rules
2	not whet	present · do-support	one	the edge			tree rules
3	put	must	serpent		then	to more strength	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	wisdom			profitable property	tree rules
5	direct	to-infinitive					vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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

אִם־קֵהָ֣ה הַבַּרְזֶ֗ל וְהוּא֙ לֹא־פָנִ֣ים קִלְקַ֔ל וַחֲיָלִ֖ים יְגַבֵּ֑ר וְיִתְר֥וֹן הַכְשֵׁ֖רחָכְמָֽה׃

Ecclesiastes 10:10: 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:197 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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