Ecclesiastes 4:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: vanity
This is Ecclesiastes 4:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 vanity | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 vanity | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanity | cop |
| 4 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 striving | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 striving | det |
| 7 | striving | strive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanity | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 wind | case |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 striving | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanity | 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 | is a | present | This | vanity and a striving after wind | 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
וְרָאִ֨יתִֽי אֲנִ֜י אֶת־כָּל־עָמָ֗ל וְאֵת֙ כָּל־כִּשְׁר֣וֹן הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה כִּ֛י הִ֥יא קִנְאַת־אִ֖ישׁ מֵרֵעֵ֑הוּ גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃
Ecclesiastes 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man's rivalry with his neighbour.
- This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:77 of Mova's parse database.
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