Ecclesiastes 1:6 · JPS 1917

The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its circuit, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.

Who acts: wind · What happens: go, turn about, return · To what, where: south, circuit

This is Ecclesiastes 1:6 · 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 (wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goeth	nsubj
3	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 south	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 south	det
6	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goeth	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turneth	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turneth	cc
9	turneth	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goeth	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 turneth	advmod
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 north	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 north	det
13	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turneth	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 turneth	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 turneth	nsubj
16	turneth	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goeth	parataxis
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 continually	advmod
18	continually	continually	ADV	_	16 turneth	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 circuit	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 circuit	nmod:poss
21	circuit	circuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turneth	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 returneth	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 returneth	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wind	det
25	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 returneth	nsubj
26	returneth	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 turneth	conj
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 returneth	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 circuits	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 circuits	nmod:poss
30	circuits	circuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 returneth	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goeth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the wind	the south			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward south=Initial_Location
2	turn about	present	the wind not said here			unto the north; about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	turn about	present	wind	wind's circuit		continually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circuit=Trajectory
4	return	present	the wind		again	to wind's circuits result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to circuit=Result

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

הוֹלֵךְ֙ אֶל־דָּר֔וֹם וְסוֹבֵ֖ב אֶל־צָפ֑וֹן סוֹבֵ֤ב ׀ סֹבֵב֙ הוֹלֵ֣ךְ הָר֔וּחַ וְעַל־סְבִיבֹתָ֖יו שָׁ֥ב הָרֽוּחַ׃

Ecclesiastes 1:6: 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:5 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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