Ecclesiastes 12:7 · JPS 1917
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Who acts: dust, spirit, God · What happens: return, give · To what, where: spirit
This is Ecclesiastes 12:7 · 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 (dust, spirit, God), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 returneth | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dust | det |
| 3 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returneth | nsubj |
| 4 | returneth | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returneth | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returneth | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returneth | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 returneth | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spirit | det |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returneth | nsubj |
| 15 | returneth | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 returneth | conj |
| 16 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 returneth | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 God | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returneth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | the dust | to the earth result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to earth=Result | ||||
| 2 | return | present | the spirit | unto God | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | God | spirit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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
וְיָשֹׁ֧ב הֶעָפָ֛ר עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ כְּשֶׁהָיָ֑ה וְהָר֣וּחַ תָּשׁ֔וּב אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְתָנָֽהּ׃
Ecclesiastes 12:7: 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:225 of Mova's parse database.
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