Ecclesiastes 2:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will long ago have been forgotten.
Who acts: remembrance · What happens: be, see, come, forget · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 2:16 · 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 (remembrance), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 For | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 fool | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 fool | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fool | det |
| 11 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fool | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 remembrance | det |
| 16 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ever | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 remembrance | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 seeing | punct |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 is | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 forgotten | mark |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 days | det |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 forgotten | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 days | acl |
| 27 | all | all | PRON | PronType=Tot | 33 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 forgotten | aux |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 ago | advmod |
| 30 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 33 forgotten | advmod |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 forgotten | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 33 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 seeing | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
Pragmatics
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no remembrance | there | for the wise man as the fool | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | no remembrance not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | forget | future · perfect · passive | all | day | ago property | tree rules |
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
כִּי֩ אֵ֨ין זִכְר֧וֹן לֶחָכָ֛ם עִֽם־הַכְּסִ֖יל לְעוֹלָ֑ם בְּשֶׁכְּבָ֞ר הַיָּמִ֤ים הַבָּאִים֙ הַכֹּ֣ל נִשְׁכָּ֔ח וְאֵ֛יךְ יָמ֥וּת הֶחָכָ֖ם עִֽם־הַכְּסִֽיל׃
Ecclesiastes 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will long ago have been forgotten.
- And how must the wise man die even as the fool!
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:34 of Mova's parse database.
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