Ecclesiastes 10:11 · JPS 1917
If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then the charmer hath no advantage.
Who acts: serpent, charmer · What happens: bite, charm, have · To what, where: iron, advantage
This is Ecclesiastes 10:11 · 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 (serpent, charmer), 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 | _ | 4 bite | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hath | advcl |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 charmed | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 charmed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 charmed | aux:pass |
| 8 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bite | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hath | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 charmer | det |
| 12 | charmer | charmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hath | nsubj |
| 13 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 advantage | det |
| 15 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hath | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite a condition, not said to happen | present | the serpent | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | charm | present · passive | iron | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | present | the charmer | no advantage | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=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
אִם־יִשֹּׁ֥ךְ הַנָּחָ֖שׁ בְּלוֹא־לָ֑חַשׁ וְאֵ֣ין יִתְר֔וֹן לְבַ֖עַל הַלָּשֽׁוֹן׃
Ecclesiastes 10:11: 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:198 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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