Ecclesiastes 5:5 · JPS 1917

Suffer not thy mouth to bring thy flesh into guilt, neither say thou before the messenger, that it was an error; wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

Who acts: you, thou, flesh, God, hands · What happens: not suffer, bring, say, be, destroy, work · To what, where: mouth, flesh, guilt, error, voice, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ecclesiastes 5:5 · 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, thou, flesh, 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	Suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Suffer	advmod
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 mouth	nmod:poss
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Suffer	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suffer	xcomp
7	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 flesh	nmod:poss
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 guilt	case
10	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 say	cc
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Suffer	conj
14	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 say	nsubj
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 messenger	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 messenger	det
17	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 error	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 error	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 error	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 error	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 error	det
23	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	ccomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 angry	punct
25	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	29 angry	advmod
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 angry	aux
27	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 angry	nsubj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 angry	cop
29	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Suffer	parataxis
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 voice	case
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 voice	nmod:poss
32	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 angry	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 destroy	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 destroy	cc
35	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 angry	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 work	det
37	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 destroy	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 hands	case
39	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 hands	nmod:poss
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 work	nmod
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Suffer	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: suggest
voice: character
polarity: neg
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not suffer	imperative	you not said here	thy mouth				tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive	you not said here	thy flesh	guilt			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme into guilt=Destination
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	thou			before the messenger		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	flesh	a error				tree rules
5	is	should	God		thy voice		angry, wherefore property	tree rules
6	destroy	infinitive	God not said here	the work of thy hands				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
7	work		thy hands					nom work «act intransitive»: of=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־תִּתֵּ֤ן אֶת־פִּ֙יךָ֙ לַחֲטִ֣יא אֶת־בְּשָׂרֶ֔ךָ וְאַל־תֹּאמַר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י הַמַּלְאָ֔ךְ כִּ֥י שְׁגָגָ֖ה הִ֑יא לָ֣מָּה יִקְצֹ֤ף הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ עַל־קוֹלֶ֔ךָ וְחִבֵּ֖ל אֶת־מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יָדֶֽיךָ׃

Ecclesiastes 5:5: 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:96 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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