Ecclesiastes 12:3 · JPS 1917

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out shall be darkened in the windows,

Who acts: keepers, strong men, grinders · What happens: tremble, bow, cease, be, look out, darken · To what, where: men, those, windows

This is Ecclesiastes 12:3 · 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 (keepers, strong men, grinders), 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 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 tremble	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keepers	det
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tremble	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keepers	nmod
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tremble	aux
11	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 day	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bow	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bow	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bow	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bow	aux
18	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tremble	conj
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 bow	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cease	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cease	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grinders	det
23	grinders	grinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cease	nsubj
24	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bow	conj
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 few	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 few	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 few	cop
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cease	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 darkened	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 darkened	cc
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 darkened	nsubj:pass
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 look	nsubj
33	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 those	acl:relcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 look	compound:prt
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 darkened	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 darkened	aux:pass
37	darkened	darken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 cease	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 windows	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 windows	det
40	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 darkened	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	shall	the keepers of the house				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bow	shall	the strong men	men = man			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
3	cease	present	the grinders				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	present	grinders = grinder			few property	tree rules
5	look out	present					vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	darken	shall · passive		those	the windows		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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

בַּיּ֗וֹם שֶׁיָּזֻ֙עוּ֙ שֹׁמְרֵ֣י הַבַּ֔יִת וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ אַנְשֵׁ֣י הֶחָ֑יִל וּבָטְל֤וּ הַטֹּֽחֲנוֹת֙ כִּ֣י מִעֵ֔טוּ וְחָשְׁכ֥וּ הָרֹא֖וֹת בָּאֲרֻבּֽוֹת׃

Ecclesiastes 12:3: 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:221 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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