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title: Ecclesiastes 7:28 (JPS 1917) — which yet my soul sought, but I found not; one man among a thousand… · tree and pragmatics
description: which yet my soul sought, but I found not; one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. Who acts: soul, I. Ecclesiastes 7:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:28 · JPS 1917

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which yet my soul sought, but I found not; one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

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**Who acts:** soul, I · **What happens:** seek, not find, find · **To what, where:** one man, woman

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:28 · 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 (soul, I), 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:150
# text = which yet my soul sought, but I found not; one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
1	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
26	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **seek** | past | my soul |  |  |  | yet |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **find** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | present · perfect | I | one man |  |  |  | among a thousand | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **find** | present · perfect | I | a woman |  |  |  | among those | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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אֲשֶׁ֛ר עוֹד־בִּקְשָׁ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י וְלֹ֣א מָצָ֑אתִי אָדָ֞ם אֶחָ֤ד מֵאֶ֙לֶף֙ מָצָ֔אתִי וְאִשָּׁ֥ה בְכָל־אֵ֖לֶּה לֹ֥א מָצָֽאתִי׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.28/)

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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:150` 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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