--- title: Ecclesiastes 7:26 (JPS 1917) — and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares a… · tree and pragmatics description: and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Who acts: I, heart, whoso, oppression. 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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 (I, heart, whoso, oppression), 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:148 # text = and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 snares snare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 whoso whoso PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 pleaseth please VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 csubj _ _ 26 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sinner sinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl:agent _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | I | the woman and oppression's hands as bands | | | | bitter *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | snares and nets's heart | snares and nets | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **please** | present | whoso | God | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus god=Experiencer | | 4 | **escape** | shall | | | | | | from oppression | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **take** | shall · passive | oppression | the sinner | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | 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} וּמוֹצֶ֨א אֲנִ֜י מַ֣ר מִמָּ֗וֶת אֶת־הָֽאִשָּׁה֙ אֲשֶׁר־הִ֨יא מְצוֹדִ֧ים וַחֲרָמִ֛ים לִבָּ֖הּ אֲסוּרִ֣ים יָדֶ֑יהָ ט֞וֹב לִפְנֵ֤י הָאֱלֹהִים֙ יִמָּלֵ֣ט מִמֶּ֔נָּה וְחוֹטֵ֖א יִלָּ֥כֶד בָּֽהּ׃ [Ecclesiastes 7:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:148` 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. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 7:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.147/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 7:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.149/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.26/)