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title: Ecclesiastes 7:9 (JPS 1917) — Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Who acts: you, anger. Ecclesiastes 7:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:9 · JPS 1917

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

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**Who acts:** you, anger · **What happens:** not be, be, rest, bosom · **To what, where:** spirit, bosom, fools

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:9 · 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 (you, anger), 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:131
# text = Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	resteth	rest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | thy spirit |  | hasty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | present | anger |  |  | the bosom of fools |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bosom=Location |
| 4 | **bosom** |  |  | fools |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: of=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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אַל־תְּבַהֵ֥ל בְּרֽוּחֲךָ֖ לִכְע֑וֹס כִּ֣י כַ֔עַס בְּחֵ֥יק כְּסִילִ֖ים יָנֽוּחַ׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.9/)

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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:131` 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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