Ecclesiastes 3:12 · JPS 1917
I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live.
Who acts: I, men · What happens: know, rejoice, get, live · To what, where: pleasure
This is Ecclesiastes 3:12 · 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 (I, men), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 is | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 is | nsubj |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 nothing | amod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 better | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoice | punct |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 rejoice | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rejoice | mark |
| 13 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 better | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rejoice | conj |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 get | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 long | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | 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 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | rejoice | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | pleasure | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | live | present | men = man | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
יָדַ֕עְתִּי כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין ט֖וֹב בָּ֑ם כִּ֣י אִם־לִשְׂמ֔וֹחַ וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת ט֖וֹב בְּחַיָּֽיו׃
Ecclesiastes 3:12: 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:62 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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