Ecclesiastes 11:6 · JPS 1917
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Who acts: you, thou, this · What happens: sow, not withhold, not know, prosper, be · To what, where: seed, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 11:6 · 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, this), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sow | obl |
| 4 | sow | sow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 seed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 withhold | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 withhold | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 withhold | obl |
| 12 | withhold | withhold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 sow | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 withhold | advmod |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 withhold | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 knowest | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 knowest | mark |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 knowest | nsubj |
| 19 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sow | advcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 knowest | advmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 prosper | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 prosper | aux |
| 23 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 knowest | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 this | punct |
| 25 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 37 good | mark |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 good | nsubj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 that | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 this | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 good | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 good | cc |
| 31 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 37 good | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 good | nsubj |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 they | det |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 good | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 good | cop |
| 36 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 37 good | advmod |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prosper | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sow | imperative | you not said here | thy seed | morning | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | |||
| 2 | not withhold | infinitive | you not said here | thy hand | evening | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not know | present | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | prosper | shall | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | shall | this | alike, good property | tree rules |
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
בַּבֹּ֙קֶר֙ זְרַ֣ע אֶת־זַרְעֶ֔ךָ וְלָעֶ֖רֶב אַל־תַּנַּ֣ח יָדֶ֑ךָ כִּי֩ אֵֽינְךָ֨ יוֹדֵ֜עאֵ֣י זֶ֤ה יִכְשָׁר֙ הֲזֶ֣ה אוֹ־זֶ֔ה וְאִם־שְׁנֵיהֶ֥ם כְּאֶחָ֖ד טוֹבִֽים׃
Ecclesiastes 11:6: 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:213 of Mova's parse database.
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