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title: Ecclesiastes 5:13 (JPS 1917) — and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a… · tree and pragmatics
description: and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. Who acts: riches, evil. Ecclesiastes 5:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 5:13 · JPS 1917

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and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

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**Who acts:** riches, evil · **What happens:** perish, beget · **To what, where:** son

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This is Ecclesiastes 5:13 · 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 (riches, evil), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:ECC:104
# text = and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	riches	riches	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	perish	perish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	begotten	beget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | present | that riches |  |  |  |  | by evil adventure | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **beget** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | evil | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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 {#hebrew}

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וְאָבַ֛ד הָעֹ֥שֶׁר הַה֖וּא בְּעִנְיַ֣ן רָ֑ע וְהוֹלִ֣יד בֵּ֔ן וְאֵ֥ין בְּיָד֖וֹ מְאֽוּמָה׃

[Ecclesiastes 5:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.13/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:104` 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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