Ecclesiastes 4:12 · JPS 1917

And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Who acts: man, two · What happens: prevail, be, withstand, not break · To what, where: man, threefold cord

This is Ecclesiastes 4:12 · 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 (man, two), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 withstand	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 prevail	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prevail	nsubj
5	prevail	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 withstand	advcl
6	against	against	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prevail	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 alone	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 alone	cop
10	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 him	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 prevail	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 withstand	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 withstand	aux
14	withstand	withstand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 withstand	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 broken	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 broken	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cord	det
19	threefold	threefold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cord	amod
20	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broken	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 broken	aux:pass
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 broken	advmod
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 broken	advmod
24	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 withstand	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 withstand	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prevail a condition, not said to happen	present	a man		against two	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against he=Location
2	is	present			alone property	tree rules
3	withstand	shall	two	man		tree rules
4	not break	present · passive		a threefold cord	quickly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

וְאִֽם־יִתְקְפוֹ֙ הָאֶחָ֔ד הַשְּׁנַ֖יִם יַעַמְד֣וּ נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְהַחוּט֙ הַֽמְשֻׁלָּ֔שׁ לֹ֥א בִמְהֵרָ֖ה יִנָּתֵֽק׃

Ecclesiastes 4:12: 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:85 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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