Ecclesiastes 5:4 · JPS 1917
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Who acts: thou · What happens: be, not vow, vow, not pay
This is Ecclesiastes 5:4 · 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), 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Better | expl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 vow | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 vow | nsubj |
| 6 | shouldest | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 8 vow | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 vow | advmod |
| 8 | vow | vow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Better | csubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vow | punct |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 vow | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 vow | mark |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 vow | nsubj |
| 13 | shouldest | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 vow | aux |
| 14 | vow | vow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Better | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pay | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 pay | advmod |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 vow | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | better property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not vow | should | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vow | should | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not pay | infinitive | thou not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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
ט֖וֹב אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־תִדֹּ֑ר מִשֶׁתִּדּ֖וֹרוְלֹ֥א תְשַׁלֵּֽם׃
Ecclesiastes 5:4: 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:95 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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