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title: Ecclesiastes 8:6 (JPS 1917) — For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the evil of ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the evil of man is great upon him. Who acts: time, evil. Ecclesiastes 8:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 8:6 · JPS 1917

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For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the evil of man is great upon him.

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**Who acts:** time, evil · **What happens:** be

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This is Ecclesiastes 8:6 · 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 (time, evil), 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:158
# text = For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the evil of man is great upon him.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **does** | present | a time and judgment |  |  | there |  | for every matter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the evil of man |  |  |  |  | upon man; great *property* | tree rules |

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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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כִּ֣י לְכָל־חֵ֔פֶץ יֵ֖שׁ עֵ֣ת וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּֽי־רָעַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם רַבָּ֥ה עָלָֽיו׃

[Ecclesiastes 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.6/)

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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:158` 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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