Ecclesiastes 12:11 · JPS 1917

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.

Who acts: words, nails · What happens: be, fasten, compose, give, word · To what, where: nails, collections, words, wise

This is Ecclesiastes 12:11 · 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 (words, nails), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 goads	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wise	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wise	det
5	wise	wise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 words	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 goads	cop
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 goads	case
8	goads	goad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 those	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 those	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	16 those	case
12	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 those	nsubj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 fastened	advmod
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 nails	acl
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 those	cop
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 goads	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 those	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 composed	aux:pass
19	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 those	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 collections	case
21	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 composed	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 given	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 given	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux:pass
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 goads	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 shepherd	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 shepherd	nummod
28	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 goads	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the words of the wise			as goads	tree rules
2	fasten	participle		nails not said here		well property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	nails			as those	tree rules
4	compose	present · passive			collections		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»
5	give	present · passive		words = word		from one shepherd	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	word			the wise			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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

דִּבְרֵ֤י חֲכָמִים֙ כַּדָּ֣רְבֹנ֔וֹת וּֽכְמַשְׂמְר֥וֹת נְטוּעִ֖ים בַּעֲלֵ֣י אֲסֻפּ֑וֹת נִתְּנ֖וּ מֵרֹעֶ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

Ecclesiastes 12:11: 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:229 of Mova's parse database.

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