Ecclesiastes 5:7 · JPS 1917

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent perverting of justice and righteousness in the state, marvel not at the matter; for one higher than the high watcheth, and there are higher than they.

Who acts: thou, you, one, higher · What happens: see, not marvel, high, watch, be · To what, where: oppression, matter

This is Ecclesiastes 5:7 · 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, one, higher), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 seest	mark
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 seest	nsubj
3	seest	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 marvel	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oppression	det
5	oppression	oppression	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seest	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 poor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poor	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oppression	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 perverting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 perverting	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 perverting	det
12	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 perverting	amod
13	perverting	pervert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oppression	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 justice	case
15	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 perverting	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 righteousness	cc
17	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 justice	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 state	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 state	det
20	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 perverting	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seest	punct
22	marvel	marvel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 marvel	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 matter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 matter	det
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marvel	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 higher	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 higher	mark
29	one	one	PRON	_	30 higher	nsubj
30	higher	high	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marvel	advcl
31	than	than	ADP	_	34 watcheth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 watcheth	det
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 watcheth	amod
34	watcheth	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 higher	acl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 are	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 are	cc
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 are	expl
38	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 higher	conj
39	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 are	nsubj
40	than	than	ADP	_	41 they	case
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 higher	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 marvel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	the oppression of the poor and the violent perverting of justice and righteousness in the state		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oppression=Stimulus
2	not marvel	imperative	you not said here		the matter	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	high		one			tree rules
4	watch	present	higher not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	be	present	higher		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

אִם־עֹ֣שֶׁק רָ֠שׁ וְגֵ֨זֶל מִשְׁפָּ֤ט וָצֶ֙דֶק֙ תִּרְאֶ֣ה בַמְּדִינָ֔ה אַל־תִּתְמַ֖הּ עַל־הַחֵ֑פֶץ כִּ֣י גָבֹ֜הַּ מֵעַ֤ל גָּבֹ֙הַ֙שֹׁמֵ֔ר וּגְבֹהִ֖ים עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

Ecclesiastes 5:7: 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:98 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.98/