Ecclesiastes 12:6 · JPS 1917
Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit;
Who acts: wheel · What happens: snap, shatter, break, fall · To what, where: silver cord, golden bowl, pitcher, fountain, pit
This is Ecclesiastes 12:6 · 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 (wheel), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 snapped | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cord | det |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cord | compound |
| 4 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 snapped | aux:pass |
| 6 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 falleth | advcl |
| 7 | asunder | asunder | ADV | _ | 6 snapped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shattered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shattered | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bowl | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bowl | amod |
| 12 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shattered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shattered | aux:pass |
| 14 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 snapped | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 broken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 broken | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pitcher | det |
| 18 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 broken | aux:pass |
| 20 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 shattered | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 fountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fountain | det |
| 23 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 broken | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 falleth | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 falleth | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wheel | det |
| 27 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 falleth | nsubj |
| 28 | falleth | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 falleth | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pit | punct |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 pit | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pit | det |
| 33 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 falleth | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 falleth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present · passive | the silver cord | asunder property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shatter | present · passive | the golden bowl | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | break | present · passive | the pitcher | the fountain | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | present | the wheel | the pit | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shatter | participle | the wheel not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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
עַ֣ד אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־יֵרָתֵק֙ חֶ֣בֶל הַכֶּ֔סֶף וְתָרֻ֖ץ גֻּלַּ֣ת הַזָּהָ֑ב וְתִשָּׁ֤בֶר כַּד֙ עַל־הַמַּבּ֔וּעַ וְנָרֹ֥ץ הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל אֶל־הַבּֽוֹר׃
Ecclesiastes 12:6: 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:224 of Mova's parse database.
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