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title: Ecclesiastes 7:27 (JPS 1917) — Behold, this have I found, saith Koheleth, adding one thing to anoth… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, this have I found, saith Koheleth, adding one thing to another, to find out the account; Who acts: I, Koheleth. Ecclesiastes 7:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:27 · JPS 1917

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Behold, this have I found, saith Koheleth, adding one thing to another, to find out the account;

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**Who acts:** I, Koheleth · **What happens:** find, say, add, find out · **To what, where:** this, one thing, account · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:27 · 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 (I, Koheleth), 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:149
# text = Behold, this have I found, saith Koheleth, adding one thing to another, to find out the account;
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saith	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Koheleth	Koheleth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect | I | this |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Koheleth |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Koheleth *not said here* | one thing |  |  |  | to another | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient to another=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **find out** | to-infinitive | Koheleth *not said here* | the account |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=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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רְאֵה֙ זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אָמְרָ֖ה קֹהֶ֑לֶת אַחַ֥ת לְאַחַ֖ת לִמְצֹ֥א חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.27/)

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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:149` 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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