Ecclesiastes 11:3 · JPS 1917

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall in the south, or in the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.

Who acts: clouds, tree · What happens: be, empty, fall · To what, where: clouds, south, place

This is Ecclesiastes 11:3 · 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 (clouds, tree), 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 full	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 empty	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rain	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 full	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 empty	nsubj
10	empty	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 empty	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 empty	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 be	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 be	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 fall	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	nsubj
20	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 be	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 south	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 south	det
23	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 north	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 north	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 north	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 north	det
28	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 south	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 place	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 be	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 falleth	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tree	det
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 falleth	nsubj
36	falleth	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 place	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 place	punct
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 be	expl
39	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 be	aux
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 be	nsubj
41	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 empty	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 empty	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the clouds			of rain; full property	tree rules
2	empty	present	clouds = cloud	clouds = cloud		upon the earth	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent themselves=Source
3	fall a condition, not said to happen	present	a tree		the south or the north		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in south=Location
4	fall	present	the tree				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	shall	tree		the place; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

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־יִמָּלְא֨וּ הֶעָבִ֥ים גֶּ֙שֶׁם֙ עַל־הָאָ֣רֶץ יָרִ֔יקוּ וְאִם־יִפּ֥וֹל עֵ֛ץ בַּדָּר֖וֹם וְאִ֣ם בַּצָּפ֑וֹן מְק֛וֹם שֶׁיִּפּ֥וֹל הָעֵ֖ץ שָׁ֥ם יְהֽוּא׃

Ecclesiastes 11:3: 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:210 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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