Ecclesiastes 4:13 · JPS 1917

Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

Who acts: poor child, old king · What happens: be, not know, receive · To what, where: admonition

This is Ecclesiastes 4:13 · 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 (poor child, old king), 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	7 child	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wise	cc
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Better	nsubj
8	than	than	ADP	_	13 king	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 king	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 foolish	cc
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 old	conj
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 child	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knoweth	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 knoweth	nsubj
16	knoweth	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 king	acl:relcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 knoweth	advmod
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 receive	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 receive	mark
20	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knoweth	xcomp
21	admonition	admonition	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 receive	obj
22	any	any	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 receive	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Better	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a poor child than a old king		better property	tree rules
2	not know	present	a old king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	receive	to-infinitive	a old king not said here	admonition		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admonition=Theme

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

ט֛וֹב יֶ֥לֶד מִסְכֵּ֖ן וְחָכָ֑ם מִמֶּ֤לֶךְ זָקֵן֙ וּכְסִ֔יל אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־יָדַ֥ע לְהִזָּהֵ֖ר עֽוֹד׃

Ecclesiastes 4:13: 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:86 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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