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title: Ecclesiastes 7:4 (JPS 1917) — The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of… · tree and pragmatics
description: The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Who acts: heart. Ecclesiastes 7:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:4 · JPS 1917

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** house

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:4 · 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 (heart), 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:126
# text = The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the heart of the wise |  |  | the house but the house |  | of mourning | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the heart of fools |  |  | the house |  | of mirth | tree rules |

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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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לֵ֤ב חֲכָמִים֙ בְּבֵ֣ית אֵ֔בֶל וְלֵ֥ב כְּסִילִ֖ים בְּבֵ֥ית שִׂמְחָֽה׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.4/)

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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:126` 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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