Ecclesiastes 12:1 · JPS 1917
Remember then thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say: 'I have no pleasure in them';
Who acts: you, evil days, years, thou, I · What happens: remember, come, draw, say, have · To what, where: Creator, pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 12:1 · 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, evil days, years, 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 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Remember | advmod |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 Creator | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remember | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 days | det |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Remember | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 youth | case |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 youth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 days | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Remember | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 draw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 draw | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 years | det |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 draw | nsubj |
| 21 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Remember | conj |
| 22 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 21 draw | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 say | nsubj |
| 26 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | aux |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 draw | advcl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 say | ccomp |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 pleasure | det |
| 33 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 pleasure | nmod |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | thy Creator | then; day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creator=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | present | the evil days | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | draw | present | the years | nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | shall | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | present | I | no pleasure | in them = they | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient |
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
וּזְכֹר֙ אֶת־בּ֣וֹרְאֶ֔יךָ בִּימֵ֖י בְּחוּרֹתֶ֑יךָ עַ֣ד אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹא־יָבֹ֙אוּ֙ יְמֵ֣י הָֽרָעָ֔ה וְהִגִּ֣יעוּ שָׁנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֹּאמַ֔ר אֵֽין־לִ֥י בָהֶ֖ם חֵֽפֶץ׃
Ecclesiastes 12:1: 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:219 of Mova's parse database.
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