Ecclesiastes 2:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour.
Who acts: nothing, wisdom, soul · What happens: be, eat, drink, make, enjoy · To what, where: soul, pleasure
This is Ecclesiastes 2:24 · 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 (nothing, wisdom, soul), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 nothing | amod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 better | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eat | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 soul | nmod:poss |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 21 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enjoy | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 labour | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 labour | nmod:poss |
| 24 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enjoy | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | should | wisdom | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | wisdom not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | wisdom not said here | wisdom's soul | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enjoy | infinitive | wisdom's soul not said here | pleasure | for wisdom's labour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus for labour=Attribute |
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
אֵֽין־ט֤וֹב בָּאָדָם֙ שֶׁיֹּאכַ֣ל וְשָׁתָ֔ה וְהֶרְאָ֧ה אֶת־נַפְשׁ֛וֹ ט֖וֹב בַּעֲמָל֑וֹ גַּם־זֹה֙ רָאִ֣יתִי אָ֔נִי כִּ֛י מִיַּ֥ד הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽיא׃
Ecclesiastes 2:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour.
- This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:46 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.
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