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title: Ecclesiastes 6:6 (JPS 1917) — yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and enjoy no good;… · tree and pragmatics
description: yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and enjoy no good; do not all go to one place? Who acts: soul, you. Ecclesiastes 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 6:6 · JPS 1917

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yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and enjoy no good; do not all go to one place?

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**Who acts:** soul, you · **What happens:** live, tell, enjoy, not go · **To what, where:** good, one place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ecclesiastes 6:6 · 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 (soul, you), 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:116
# text = yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and enjoy no good; do not all go to one place?
1	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | soul |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year | twice *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enjoy** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no good |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **go** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  | one place |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְאִלּ֣וּ חָיָ֗ה אֶ֤לֶף שָׁנִים֙ פַּעֲמַ֔יִם וְטוֹבָ֖ה לֹ֣א רָאָ֑ה הֲלֹ֛א אֶל־מָק֥וֹם אֶחָ֖ד הַכֹּ֥ל הוֹלֵֽךְ׃

[Ecclesiastes 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.6.6/)

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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:116` 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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