Ecclesiastes 11:5 · JPS 1917
As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all things.
Who acts: thou, bones, womb, God · What happens: not know, be, grow, do, work · To what, where: way, womb, work, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 11:5 · 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 (thou, bones, womb, God), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 knowest | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 knowest | nsubj |
| 3 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 knowest | advcl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 knowest | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 way | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knowest | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wind | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grow | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 grow | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 grow | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 grow | aux |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knowest | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 womb | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 womb | det |
| 21 | womb | womb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grow | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 womb | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 child | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 child | cop |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 child | case |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 womb | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 knowest | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 so | advmod |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 knowest | advmod |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 knowest | nsubj |
| 32 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 knowest | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 work | det |
| 35 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 knowest | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 God | case |
| 37 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 work | nmod |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 doeth | nsubj |
| 39 | doeth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 God | acl:relcl |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 things | det |
| 41 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 doeth | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 knowest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the way | of the wind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | present · do-support | the bones | the womb of her | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in womb=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the womb of her | with child | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not know | present | thou | the work of God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | do | present | God | all things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | work | God | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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
כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר אֵֽינְךָ֤ יוֹדֵ֙עַ֙ מַה־דֶּ֣רֶךְ הָר֔וּחַ כַּעֲצָמִ֖ים בְּבֶ֣טֶן הַמְּלֵאָ֑ה כָּ֗כָה לֹ֤א תֵדַע֙ אֶת־מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃
Ecclesiastes 11:5: 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:212 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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