Ecclesiastes 11:1 · JPS 1917
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: cast, find · To what, where: bread, waters
This is Ecclesiastes 11:1 · 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 (you, thou), 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 | Cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 bread | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cast | obj |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 waters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waters | det |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cast | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Cast | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 find | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cast | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | imperative | you not said here | thy bread | the waters | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bread=Theme upon water=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | shall | thou | bread | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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
שַׁלַּ֥ח לַחְמְךָ֖ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הַמָּ֑יִם כִּֽי־בְרֹ֥ב הַיָּמִ֖ים תִּמְצָאֶֽנּוּ׃
Ecclesiastes 11:1: 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:208 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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