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title: Ecclesiastes 8:3 (JPS 1917) — Be not hasty to go out of his presence; stand not in an evil thing;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not hasty to go out of his presence; stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. Who acts: you, king, whatsoever. Ecclesiastes 8:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 8:3 · JPS 1917

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Be not hasty to go out of his presence; stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

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**Who acts:** you, king, whatsoever · **What happens:** not be, go out, not stand, do, please · **To what, where:** evil thing, king

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This is Ecclesiastes 8:3 · 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 (you, king, whatsoever), 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:155
# text = Be not hasty to go out of his presence; stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	doeth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pleaseth	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hasty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of king's presence; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  | a evil thing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thing=Location |
| 4 | **do** | present | king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **please** | present | whatsoever | king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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אַל־תִּבָּהֵ֤ל מִפָּנָיו֙ תֵּלֵ֔ךְ אַֽל־תַּעֲמֹ֖ד בְּדָבָ֣ר רָ֑ע כִּ֛י כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַחְפֹּ֖ץ יַעֲשֶֽׂה׃

[Ecclesiastes 8:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.3/)

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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:155` 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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