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title: Ecclesiastes 7:29 (JPS 1917) — Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Who acts: I, God, men. Ecclesiastes 7:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 7:29 · JPS 1917

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Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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**Who acts:** I, God, men · **What happens:** find, make, seek out · **To what, where:** this, man, many inventions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ecclesiastes 7:29 · 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, God, men), 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:151
# text = Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	inventions	invention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- 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 declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | God | man |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Product |
| 3 | **seek out** | present · perfect | men *= man* | many inventions |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invention=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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לְבַד֙ רְאֵה־זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֧ה הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָאָדָ֖ם יָשָׁ֑ר וְהֵ֥מָּה בִקְשׁ֖וּ חִשְּׁבֹנ֥וֹת רַבִּֽים׃

[Ecclesiastes 7:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.29/)

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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:151` 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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