Ecclesiastes 2:7 · JPS 1917

I acquired men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

Who acts: I · What happens: acquire, have, bear, be, possess · To what, where: men servants, servants, house, great possessions, all, Jerusalem

This is Ecclesiastes 2:7 · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 acquired	nsubj
2	acquired	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 servants	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 men	punct
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 acquired	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 servants	cc
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servants	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 maid	punct
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 servants	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 acquired	conj
13	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 servants	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 born	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 acquired	conj
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 possessions	amod
23	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 herds	case
25	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 possessions	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flocks	cc
27	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 herds	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 all	punct
29	above	above	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 possessions	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 me	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 me	cop
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 all	acl:relcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Jerusalem	case
36	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 me	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 acquired	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	acquire	past	I	men servants and maid servants			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	have	past	I not said here	servants			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
3	bear	participle		servants not said here	my house		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	I	great possessions of herds and flocks	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient
5	is	past			Jerusalem	before me	tree rules
6	possess			herds and flocks			nom possession «act 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

קָנִ֙יתִי֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים וּשְׁפָח֔וֹת וּבְנֵי־בַ֖יִת הָ֣יָה לִ֑י גַּ֣ם מִקְנֶה֩ בָקָ֨ר וָצֹ֤אן הַרְבֵּה֙ הָ֣יָה לִ֔י מִכֹּ֛ל שֶֽׁהָי֥וּ לְפָנַ֖י בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

Ecclesiastes 2:7: 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:24 of Mova's parse database.

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