Ecclesiastes 4:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
There was no end of all the people, even of all them whom he did lead; yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him.
Who acts: end, people · What happens: be, lead, come, not rejoice
This is Ecclesiastes 4:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (end, people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 people | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 end | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 them | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 them | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 them | det:predet |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 people | nmod |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lead | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lead | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lead | aux |
| 17 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 them | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 rejoice | punct |
| 19 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 26 rejoice | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rejoice | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 come | nsubj |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 they | acl:relcl |
| 23 | after | after | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 rejoice | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 rejoice | advmod |
| 26 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 was | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rejoice | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no end of all people of people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past · do-support | end | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | present | after property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not rejoice | shall | people | in end | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
אֵֽין־קֵ֣ץ לְכָל־הָעָ֗ם לְכֹ֤ל אֲשֶׁר־הָיָה֙ לִפְנֵיהֶ֔ם גַּ֥ם הָאַחֲרוֹנִ֖ים לֹ֣א יִשְׂמְחוּ־ב֑וֹ כִּֽי־גַם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וְרַעְי֥וֹן רֽוּחַ׃
Ecclesiastes 4:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- There was no end of all the people, even of all them whom he did lead; yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him.
- Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:ECC:89 of Mova's parse database.
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