Ecclesiastes 2:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shown myself wise under the sun.
Who acts: remembrance, I · What happens: know, be, have, labour, show · To what, where: wise man, rule, labour, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ecclesiastes 2:19 · 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, I), 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 knoweth | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knoweth | nsubj |
| 3 | knoweth | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 man | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 man | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 man | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knoweth | ccomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 fool | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fool | det |
| 13 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knoweth | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knoweth | conj |
| 19 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 labour | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 labour | det:predet |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 labour | nmod:poss |
| 23 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rule | nmod |
| 24 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 laboured | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 laboured | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 laboured | aux |
| 27 | laboured | labour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 labour | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shown | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shown | cc |
| 30 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 shown | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 shown | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 shown | aux |
| 33 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 laboured | conj |
| 34 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 shown | obj |
| 35 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shown | xcomp |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 sun. | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sun. | det |
| 38 | sun. | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wise | obl |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | future | remembrance | a wise man or a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | future | remembrance | rule | my labour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | |||
| 4 | labour | present · perfect | I | wherein property | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | show | present · perfect | I | myself | wherein, wise property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient |
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
וּמִ֣י יוֹדֵ֗עַ הֶֽחָכָ֤ם יִהְיֶה֙ א֣וֹ סָכָ֔ל וְיִשְׁלַט֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי וְשֶׁחָכַ֖מְתִּי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ גַּם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל׃
Ecclesiastes 2:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shown myself wise under the sun.
- This also is vanity.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:38 of Mova's parse database.
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