Ecclesiastes 4:5 · JPS 1917
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Who acts: fool · What happens: fold, eat · To what, where: hands, own flesh
This is Ecclesiastes 4:5 · 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 (fool), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fool | det |
| 2 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foldeth | nsubj |
| 3 | foldeth | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 foldeth | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 foldeth | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eateth | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eateth | cc |
| 9 | eateth | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 foldeth | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flesh | amod |
| 12 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eateth | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 foldeth | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | present | the fool | fool's hands | together property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | eat | present | the fool not said here | fool's own flesh | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |
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
הַכְּסִיל֙ חֹבֵ֣ק אֶת־יָדָ֔יו וְאֹכֵ֖ל אֶת־בְּשָׂרֽוֹ׃
Ecclesiastes 4:5: 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:78 of Mova's parse database.
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