Ecclesiastes 2:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
The wise man, his eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness.
Who acts: eyes, fool · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: head, darkness
This is Ecclesiastes 2:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (eyes, fool), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | dislocated |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 head | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 head | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 walketh | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 walketh | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fool | det |
| 14 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walketh | nsubj |
| 15 | walketh | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 head | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 darkness | case |
| 17 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walketh | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 head | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wisdom's eyes | wisdom's head | the wise man dislocated | tree rules | |||
| 2 | walk | present | the fool | darkness | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory |
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
הֶֽחָכָם֙ עֵינָ֣יו בְּרֹאשׁ֔וֹ וְהַכְּסִ֖יל בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ הוֹלֵ֑ךְ וְיָדַ֣עְתִּי גַם־אָ֔נִי שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥ה אֶחָ֖ד יִקְרֶ֥ה אֶת־כֻּלָּֽם׃
Ecclesiastes 2:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- The wise man, his eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness.
- And I also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:31 of Mova's parse database.
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