Ecclesiastes 4:9 · JPS 1917
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Who acts: Two, vanity · What happens: be, have · To what, where: good reward
This is Ecclesiastes 4:9 · 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 (Two, vanity), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 better | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 better | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 reward | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reward | amod |
| 12 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 labour | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 labour | nmod:poss |
| 15 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reward | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | Two | than one; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | vanity | a good reward | for vanity's labour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=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
טוֹבִ֥ים הַשְּׁנַ֖יִם מִן־הָאֶחָ֑ד אֲשֶׁ֧ר יֵשׁ־לָהֶ֛ם שָׂכָ֥ר ט֖וֹב בַּעֲמָלָֽם׃
Ecclesiastes 4:9: 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:82 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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