Ecclesiastes 2:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
This also is vanity and a great evil.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: vanity
This is Ecclesiastes 2:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 vanity | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 vanity | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanity | cop |
| 4 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 evil | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 evil | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 evil | amod |
| 8 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanity | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanity | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | vanity and a great evil | 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
כִּי־יֵ֣שׁ אָדָ֗ם שֶׁעֲמָל֛וֹ בְּחָכְמָ֥ה וּבְדַ֖עַת וּבְכִשְׁר֑וֹן וּלְאָדָ֞ם שֶׁלֹּ֤א עָֽמַל־בּוֹ֙ יִתְּנֶ֣נּוּ חֶלְק֔וֹ גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וְרָעָ֥ה רַבָּֽה׃
Ecclesiastes 2:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion.
- This also is vanity and a great evil.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:42 of Mova's parse database.
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