Ecclesiastes 4:6 · JPS 1917

Better is a handful of quietness, than both the hands full of labour and striving after wind.

Who acts: handful · What happens: be, strive

This is Ecclesiastes 4:6 · 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 (handful), 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	Better	better	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Better	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 handful	det
4	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Better	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 quietness	case
6	quietness	quietness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handful	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hands	punct
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 hands	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 hands	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hands	det
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Better	obl
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hands	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 labour	case
14	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 striving	cc
16	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 full	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 wind	case
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 striving	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Better	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	present	a handful of quietness					than both hands; better property	tree rules
2	strive	gerund	a handful of quietness not said here				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

ט֕וֹב מְלֹ֥א כַ֖ף נָ֑חַת מִמְּלֹ֥א חָפְנַ֛יִם עָמָ֖ל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃

Ecclesiastes 4:6: 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:79 of Mova's parse database.

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