Ecclesiastes 2:12 · JPS 1917

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: turn, behold, do, come · To what, where: myself, wisdom

This is Ecclesiastes 2:12 · 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, man), 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	_	3 turned	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turned	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 behold	mark
6	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	advcl
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 behold	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 madness	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 madness	cc
10	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wisdom	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 folly	cc
12	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 madness	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 do	mark
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
16	can	can	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	nsubj
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	advcl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 cometh	nsubj
21	cometh	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 man	acl:relcl
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 king	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cometh	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 that	advmod
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 do	parataxis
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 done	nsubj:pass
29	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 done	aux:pass
31	already	already	ADV	_	32 done	advmod
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 that	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	turn	past	I	myself		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
2	behold	to-infinitive	I not said here	wisdom and madness and folly		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus
3	do	can	the man			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	come	present	the man		after the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	present · perfect · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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

וּפָנִ֤יתִֽי אֲנִי֙ לִרְא֣וֹת חָכְמָ֔ה וְהוֹלֵל֖וֹת וְסִכְל֑וּת כִּ֣י ׀ מֶ֣ה הָאָדָ֗ם שֶׁיָּבוֹא֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־כְּבָ֖ר עָשֽׂוּהוּ׃

Ecclesiastes 2:12: 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:29 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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