Ecclesiastes 3:9 · JPS 1917
What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?
Who acts: he · What happens: have, work in, labour · To what, where: profit
This is Ecclesiastes 3:9 · 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 (he), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 profit | det |
| 2 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hath | obj |
| 3 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hath | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 worketh | nsubj |
| 6 | worketh | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 he | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 that | fixed |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 laboureth | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laboureth | nsubj |
| 10 | laboureth | labour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worketh | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
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- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | he | what profit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | work in | present | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | labour | present | he | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
מַה־יִּתְרוֹן֙ הָֽעוֹשֶׂ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר ה֥וּא עָמֵֽל׃
Ecclesiastes 3:9: 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:59 of Mova's parse database.
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