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title: Ecclesiastes 7:6 (JPS 1917) — For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity. Who acts: this. Ecclesiastes 7:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:6 · JPS 1917

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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** laughter, vanity

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:6 · 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 (this), 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:128
# text = For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crackling	crackling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the laughter |  |  |  | as the crackling of thorns under a pot; of the fool | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | vanity |  |  |  |  | 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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כִּ֣י כְק֤וֹל הַסִּירִים֙ תַּ֣חַת הַסִּ֔יר כֵּ֖ן שְׂחֹ֣ק הַכְּסִ֑יל וְגַם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.6/)

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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:128` 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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