Ecclesiastes 3:21 · JPS 1917

Who knoweth the spirit of man whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast whether it goeth downward to the earth?

Who acts: spirit · What happens: know, go · To what, where: spirit, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 3:21 · 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 (spirit), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 knoweth	nsubj
2	knoweth	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spirit	det
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knoweth	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 man	case
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spirit	nmod
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 goeth	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 goeth	nsubj
9	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knoweth	ccomp
10	upward	upward	ADV	_	9 goeth	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spirit	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spirit	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spirit	det
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knoweth	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 beast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beast	det
17	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spirit	nmod
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 goeth	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 goeth	nsubj
20	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 spirit	ccomp
21	downward	downward	ADV	_	20 goeth	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 earth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 earth	det
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goeth	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 knoweth	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present		the spirit of man			tree rules
2	go	present	spirit			upward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	spirit		the earth	downward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location

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

מִ֣י יוֹדֵ֗עַ ר֚וּחַ בְּנֵ֣י הָאָדָ֔ם הָעֹלָ֥ה הִ֖יא לְמָ֑עְלָה וְר֙וּחַ֙ הַבְּהֵמָ֔ה הַיֹּרֶ֥דֶת הִ֖יא לְמַ֥טָּה לָאָֽרֶץ׃

Ecclesiastes 3:21: 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:71 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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