Ecclesiastes 2:17 · JPS 1917

So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Who acts: I, work, all · What happens: hate, work, be · To what, where: life, work, sun, vanity

This is Ecclesiastes 2:17 · 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, work, all), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hated	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hated	nsubj
3	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hated	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grievous	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 grievous	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 work	det
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grievous	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wrought	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wrought	aux:pass
11	wrought	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 work	acl:relcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrought	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grievous	cop
16	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hated	advcl
17	unto	unto	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 grievous	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 vanity	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 vanity	mark
21	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	23 vanity	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 vanity	cop
23	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hated	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 striving	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 striving	det
26	striving	strive	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vanity	conj
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 wind	case
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 striving	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hated	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hate	past	I	life			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
2	work	present · passive		the work	the sun		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
3	is	past	the work			unto me; grievous property	tree rules
4	is a	present	all	vanity and a striving after wind			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

וְשָׂנֵ֙אתִי֙ אֶת־הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים כִּ֣י רַ֤ע עָלַי֙ הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂ֖ה תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ כִּֽי־הַכֹּ֥ל הֶ֖בֶל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃

Ecclesiastes 2:17: 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:36 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.36/