Ecclesiastes 3:22 · JPS 1917

Wherefore I perceived that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

Who acts: I, nothing, man, that, other · What happens: perceive, be, rejoice, bring, see, work · To what, where: works, portion, other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 3:22 · 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, nothing, man, that), 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	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	3 perceived	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 is	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 perceived	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 is	nsubj
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 nothing	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rejoice	punct
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 rejoice	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 rejoice	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rejoice	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 rejoice	aux
15	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 better	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 works	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 works	nmod:poss
18	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rejoice	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 portion	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 portion	mark
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 portion	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 portion	cop
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 portion	nmod:poss
24	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perceived	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 bring	mark
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 bring	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bring	aux
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 perceived	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bring	advcl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 see	ccomp
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 what	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 what	cop
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 what	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	I					wherefore property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rejoice	should	a man			other's works			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	that	other's portion					tree rules
5	bring	shall			other				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
6	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	shall					after other		tree rules
8	work		other						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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

וְרָאִ֗יתִי כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין טוֹב֙ מֵאֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׂמַ֤ח הָאָדָם֙ בְּֽמַעֲשָׂ֔יו כִּי־ה֖וּא חֶלְק֑וֹ כִּ֣י מִ֤י יְבִיאֶ֙נּוּ֙ לִרְא֔וֹת בְּמֶ֖ה שֶׁיִּהְיֶ֥ה אַחֲרָֽיו׃

Ecclesiastes 3:22: 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:72 of Mova's parse database.

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