Ecclesiastes 3:19 · JPS 1917

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is vanity.

Who acts: that, one thing, one, other, beasts, man · What happens: befall, die, have, be · To what, where: sons, beasts, one breath, pre-eminence, beast, vanity

This is Ecclesiastes 3:19 · 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 (that, one thing, one, other), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	9 befalleth	mark
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 befalleth	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 befalleth	nsubj
4	befalleth	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 befalleth	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sons	det
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 befalleth	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sons	nmod
9	befalleth	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 befalleth	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 befalleth	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thing	nummod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 befalleth	nsubj
15	befalleth	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 befalleth	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 befalleth	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 dieth	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 dieth	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dieth	nsubj
21	dieth	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dieth	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dieth	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 dieth	advmod
24	dieth	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 befalleth	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dieth	nsubj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
28	yea	yea	INTJ	_	31 have	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 yea	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 befalleth	parataxis
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 breath	det
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 breath	nummod
34	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 hath	punct
36	so	so	SCONJ	_	39 hath	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 so	fixed
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hath	nsubj
39	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 have	advcl
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 pre-eminence	det
41	pre-eminence	pre-eminence	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hath	obj
42	above	above	ADP	_	44 beast	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 beast	det
44	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pre-eminence	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 vanity	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	49 vanity	mark
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 vanity	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 vanity	cop
49	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 befalleth	parataxis
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 befalleth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	befall	present	that	the sons of men		tree rules
2	befall	present		beasts		tree rules
3	befall	present	one thing	beasts = beast		tree rules
4	die	present	the one			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	die	present	the other			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	have	present	beasts = beast	all one breath		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Patient
7	have	present	man	no pre-eminence	a beast	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pre-eminence=Patient
8	is a	present	all	vanity		tree rules

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

כִּי֩ מִקְרֶ֨ה בְֽנֵי־הָאָדָ֜ם וּמִקְרֶ֣ה הַבְּהֵמָ֗ה וּמִקְרֶ֤ה אֶחָד֙ לָהֶ֔ם כְּמ֥וֹת זֶה֙ כֵּ֣ן מ֣וֹת זֶ֔ה וְר֥וּחַ אֶחָ֖ד לַכֹּ֑ל וּמוֹתַ֨ר הָאָדָ֤ם מִן־הַבְּהֵמָה֙ אָ֔יִן כִּ֥י הַכֹּ֖ל הָֽבֶל׃

Ecclesiastes 3:19: 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:69 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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