Ecclesiastes 5:1 · JPS 1917
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
Who acts: you, heart, God, words, thy · What happens: not be, let, be, utter, word · To what, where: heart, word, heaven, words
This is Ecclesiastes 5:1 · 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 (you, heart, God, words), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rash | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 rash | advmod |
| 3 | rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mouth | case |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rash | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 rash | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 heart | advmod |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hasty | cop |
| 14 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 let | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 utter | mark |
| 16 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hasty | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 utter | obj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 God | case |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 utter | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 heaven | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 heaven | mark |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 heaven | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 heaven | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heaven | case |
| 26 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rash | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 earth | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 earth | cc |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 earth | nsubj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 earth | case |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heaven | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 let | punct |
| 33 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 34 let | advmod |
| 34 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 rash | parataxis |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 words | nmod:poss |
| 36 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 let | obj |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 few | cop |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 let | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rash | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request, form=imp, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative | you not said here | with thy mouth; rash property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | thy heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | thy heart not said here | hasty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | to-infinitive | thy heart not said here | a word | before God | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 5 | is | present | God | heaven and earth | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | thy words | therefore property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | infinitive | thy words not said here | few property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | word | thy | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
אַל־תְּבַהֵ֨ל עַל־פִּ֜יךָ וְלִבְּךָ֧ אַל־יְמַהֵ֛ר לְהוֹצִ֥יא דָבָ֖ר לִפְנֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֤ים בַּשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְאַתָּ֣ה עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ עַֽל־כֵּ֛ןיִהְי֥וּ דְבָרֶ֖יךָ מְעַטִּֽים׃
Ecclesiastes 5:1: 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:92 of Mova's parse database.
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