Ecclesiastes 2:11 · JPS 1917

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Who acts: I, hands, all, profit · What happens: look, wrought, labour, do, be · To what, where: works, labour, vanity

This is Ecclesiastes 2:11 · 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 (I, hands, all, profit), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 looked	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 works	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 works	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 works	det
7	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wrought	obj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wrought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wrought	aux
12	wrought	wrought	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 works	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 labour	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 labour	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 labour	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 labour	det
17	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 works	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 laboured	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 laboured	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laboured	aux
21	laboured	labour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 labour	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 laboured	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 vanity	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 vanity	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 behold	punct
27	behold	behold	INTJ	_	31 vanity	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 behold	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 vanity	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vanity	cop
31	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 striving	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 striving	det
34	striving	strive	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vanity	conj
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 wind	case
36	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 striving	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 was	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 was	cc
39	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 was	expl
40	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vanity	conj
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 profit	det
42	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 was	nsubj
43	under	under	ADP	_	45 sun.	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun.	det
45	sun.	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 profit	nmod

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	I			then	on all works and the labour	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on work=Theme
2	wrought	past · perfect	my hands	all works and the labour				tree rules
3	labour	past · perfect	I	the labour				tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	all	vanity and a striving after wind				tree rules
6	be	past	no profit under the sun.		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

וּפָנִ֣יתִֽי אֲנִ֗י בְּכָל־מַעֲשַׂי֙ שֶֽׁעָשׂ֣וּ יָדַ֔י וּבֶֽעָמָ֖ל שֶׁעָמַ֣לְתִּי לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת וְהִנֵּ֨ה הַכֹּ֥ל הֶ֙בֶל֙ וּרְע֣וּת ר֔וּחַ וְאֵ֥ין יִתְר֖וֹן תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Ecclesiastes 2:11: 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:28 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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