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title: Ecclesiastes 7:14 (JPS 1917) — In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity cons… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God hath made even the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. Who acts: you, God, man. Ecclesiastes 7:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:14 · JPS 1917

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In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God hath made even the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

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**Who acts:** you, God, man · **What happens:** be, consider, make, find · **To what, where:** one, nothing

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:14 · 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, God, man), 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:136
# text = In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God hath made even the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	adversity	adversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	27	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	35	obj	_	_
37	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day | joyful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | God | the one |  |  | to the end |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product |
| 4 | **find** | should | man | nothing |  |  | after God |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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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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בְּי֤וֹם טוֹבָה֙ הֱיֵ֣ה בְט֔וֹב וּבְי֥וֹם רָעָ֖ה רְאֵ֑ה גַּ֣ם אֶת־זֶ֤ה לְעֻמַּת־זֶה֙ עָשָׂ֣ה הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים עַל־דִּבְרַ֗ת שֶׁלֹּ֨א יִמְצָ֧א הָֽאָדָ֛ם אַחֲרָ֖יו מְאֽוּמָה׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.14/)

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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:136` 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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