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title: Ecclesiastes 7:21 (JPS 1917) — Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee; Who acts: you, thou. Ecclesiastes 7:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:21 · JPS 1917

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Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee;

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** not take, speak, hear, curse · **To what, where:** heed, words, servant, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:21 · 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, thou), 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:143
# text = Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee;
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	curse	curse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | heed |  |  |  | unto all words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | all words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | present | thou | thy servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **curse** | infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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גַּ֤ם לְכָל־הַדְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְדַבֵּ֔רוּ אַל־תִּתֵּ֖ן לִבֶּ֑ךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־תִשְׁמַ֥ע אֶֽת־עַבְדְּךָ֖ מְקַלְלֶֽךָ׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.21/)

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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:143` 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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