Ecclesiastes 1:10 · JPS 1917

Is there a thing whereof it is said: 'See, this is new'? — it hath been already, in the ages which were before us.

Who acts: thing, this, ear, ages · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: ear, ages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 1:10 · 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 (thing, this, ear, ages), 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	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Is	expl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thing	det
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Is	nsubj
5	whereof	whereof	ADV	PronType=Int	8 said	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux:pass
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thing	acl:relcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 See	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 See	punct
11	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 new	punct
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 new	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 new	cop
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 See	ccomp
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 new	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 been	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 been	nsubj
20	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 been	aux
21	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Is	parataxis
22	already	already	ADV	_	21 been	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ages	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ages	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ages	det
26	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 been	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 us	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 us	cop
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ages	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a thing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · passive		ear			whereof property	tree rules
3	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	this				new property	tree rules
5	be	present · perfect	ear			in the ages		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location
6	is	past	the ages			before us		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

יֵ֥שׁ דָּבָ֛ר שֶׁיֹּאמַ֥ר רְאֵה־זֶ֖ה חָדָ֣שׁ ה֑וּא כְּבָר֙ הָיָ֣ה לְעֹֽלָמִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיָ֖ה מִלְּפָנֵֽנוּ׃

Ecclesiastes 1:10: 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:9 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.9/