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title: Ecclesiastes 8:1 (JPS 1917) — A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his fac… · tree and pragmatics
description: A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed. Who acts: wisdom, face. Ecclesiastes 8:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.

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**Who acts:** wisdom, face · **What happens:** make, shine, change · **To what, where:** boldness

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This is Ecclesiastes 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (wisdom, face), 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:153
# text = A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boldness	boldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a man's wisdom |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | to-infinitive | man's face |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | present · passive |  | the boldness of man's face |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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מִ֚י כְּהֶ֣חָכָ֔ם וּמִ֥י יוֹדֵ֖עַ פֵּ֣שֶׁר דָּבָ֑ר חָכְמַ֤ת אָדָם֙ תָּאִ֣יר פָּנָ֔יו וְעֹ֥ז פָּנָ֖יו יְשֻׁנֶּֽא׃

[Ecclesiastes 8:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.152/)
2. **A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.**

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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:153` 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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