--- title: Ecclesiastes 7:2 (JPS 1917) — It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house… · tree and pragmatics description: It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Who acts: that, living. 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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 (that, living), 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:124 # text = It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 csubj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 mourning mourning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 than than SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 feasting feasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | the house of mourning | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | the house of feasting | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | the end | | | | of all men | tree rules | | 5 | **lay** | future | the living | oil | | | | to living's heart | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | 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} ט֞וֹב לָלֶ֣כֶת אֶל־בֵּֽית־אֵ֗בֶל מִלֶּ֙כֶת֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֕ר ה֖וּא ס֣וֹף כָּל־הָאָדָ֑ם וְהַחַ֖י יִתֵּ֥ן אֶל־לִבּֽוֹ׃ [Ecclesiastes 7:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:124` 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. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 7:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.123/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 7:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.125/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 7:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.2/)