Ecclesiastes 12:5 · JPS 1917

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Who acts: daughters, terrors, almond tree, grasshopper, caperberry, man · What happens: be, blossom, drag, fail, go · To what, where: way, grasshopper, long home

This is Ecclesiastes 12:5 · 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 (daughters, terrors, almond tree, grasshopper), 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	Also	also	ADV	_	6 afraid	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 afraid	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 afraid	obl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 high	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 that	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 way	cc
14	terrors	terror	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 way	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 way	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 way	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 blossom	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 blossom	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
23	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 almond	punct
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blossom	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 blossom	aux
27	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 drag	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drag	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grasshopper	det
31	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drag	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 drag	aux
33	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 blossom	conj
34	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 drag	obj
35	along	along	ADV	_	33 drag	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fail	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fail	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 caperberry	det
39	caperberry	caperberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fail	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 fail	aux
41	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 drag	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 goeth	punct
43	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 goeth	mark
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 goeth	nsubj
45	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 fail	advcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 home	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 home	nmod:poss
48	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 home	amod
49	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 goeth	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 go	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 go	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 mourners	det
53	mourners	mourner	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 go	nsubj
54	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 goeth	conj
55	about	about	ADP	_	57 streets	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 streets	det
57	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 go	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	shall	daughters = daughter			of that; afraid property	tree rules
2	is	present				high property	tree rules
3	is	shall	terrors		the way		tree rules
4	blossom	shall	the almond tree				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	drag	shall	the grasshopper	grasshopper		along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
6	fail	shall	the caperberry				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go	present	man		caperberry's long home		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
8	go	present	the mourners			about the streets	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about street=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

גַּ֣ם מִגָּבֹ֤הַּ יִרָ֙אוּ֙ וְחַתְחַתִּ֣ים בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ וְיָנֵ֤אץ הַשָּׁקֵד֙ וְיִסְתַּבֵּ֣ל הֶֽחָגָ֔ב וְתָפֵ֖ר הָֽאֲבִיּוֹנָ֑ה כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ הָאָדָם֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית עוֹלָמ֔וֹ וְסָבְב֥וּ בָשּׁ֖וּקהַסֹּפְדִֽים׃

Ecclesiastes 12:5: 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:223 of Mova's parse database.

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