Ecclesiastes 3:18 · JPS 1917

I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.'

Who acts: I, heart, God, men · What happens: say, be, sift, see · To what, where: heart, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 3:18 · 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, heart, God, 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 heart	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 sons	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 sons	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sons	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sons	cop
10	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 sons	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 because	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sons	det
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 men	case
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sons	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sift	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 sift	mark
18	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sift	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sift	aux
20	sift	sift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sons	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sift	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 see	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sift	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 are	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 are	nsubj
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	29 they	appos
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 see	ccomp
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 beasts	cc
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 beasts	case
34	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 are	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I		my heart		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heart=Manner
2	is	present	heart			because the sons; of men	tree rules
3	sift	may	God	men = man			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	see	may	men = man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּלִבִּ֔י עַל־דִּבְרַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י הָאָדָ֔ם לְבָרָ֖ם הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְלִרְא֕וֹת שְׁהֶם־בְּהֵמָ֥ה הֵ֖מָּה לָהֶֽם׃

Ecclesiastes 3:18: 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:68 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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