Ecclesiastes 5:3 · JPS 1917

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou vowest.

Who acts: thou, you, God · What happens: vow, not defer, pay, have · To what, where: vow, pleasure, fools, that

This is Ecclesiastes 5:3 · 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 (thou, you, God), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 vowest	mark
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 vowest	nsubj
3	vowest	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 defer	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vow	det
5	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vowest	obj
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 God	case
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 vowest	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 defer	punct
9	defer	defer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 defer	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pay	mark
12	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 defer	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pay	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hath	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 hath	mark
16	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hath	nsubj
17	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 defer	advcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 pleasure	det
19	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hath	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 fools	case
21	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pleasure	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 pay	punct
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 defer	parataxis
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 pay	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 vowest	obj
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 vowest	nsubj
27	vowest	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 that	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 defer	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vow	present	thou	a vow		unto God	tree rules
2	not defer	imperative	you not said here				vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	pay	to-infinitive	you not said here	vow			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
4	have	present	God	no pleasure	fools		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
5	pay	infinitive		that			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Asset
6	vow	present	thou				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

כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ תִּדֹּ֨ר נֶ֜דֶר לֵֽאלֹהִ֗ים אַל־תְּאַחֵר֙ לְשַׁלְּמ֔וֹ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין חֵ֖פֶץ בַּכְּסִילִ֑ים אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־תִּדֹּ֖ר שַׁלֵּֽם׃

Ecclesiastes 5:3: 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:94 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.94/