Ecclesiastes 10:13 · JPS 1917
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness.
Who acts: beginning, end, serpent · What happens: be, begin, word, talk · To what, where: foolishness, grievous madness, words, mouth
This is Ecclesiastes 10:13 · 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 (beginning, end, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beginning | det |
| 2 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foolishness | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beginning | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 foolishness | cop |
| 10 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 madness | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 madness | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 madness | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 talk | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 talk | nmod:poss |
| 17 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 madness | cop |
| 19 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 madness | amod |
| 20 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foolishness | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 foolishness | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the beginning of the words of serpent's mouth | foolishness and grievous madness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the end of serpent's talk | grievous madness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | the words of serpent's mouth | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | word | serpent's mouth | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | talk | serpent | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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
תְּחִלַּ֥ת דִּבְרֵי־פִ֖יהוּ סִכְל֑וּת וְאַחֲרִ֣ית פִּ֔יהוּ הוֹלֵל֖וּת רָעָֽה׃
Ecclesiastes 10:13: 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:200 of Mova's parse database.
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