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title: Ecclesiastes 9:7 (JPS 1917) — Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works. Who acts: you, God, thy. Ecclesiastes 9:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 9:7 · JPS 1917

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Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

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**Who acts:** you, God, thy · **What happens:** go, eat, drink, accept, work · **To what, where:** way, bread, wine, works

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This is Ecclesiastes 9:7 · 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, God, thy), 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:176
# text = Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy bread |  |  |  | with joy | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy wine |  |  |  | with a merry heart | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 4 | **accept** | present · perfect | God | thy works |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 5 | **work** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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לֵ֣ךְ אֱכֹ֤ל בְּשִׂמְחָה֙ לַחְמֶ֔ךָ וּֽשֲׁתֵ֥ה בְלֶב־ט֖וֹב יֵינֶ֑ךָ כִּ֣י כְבָ֔ר רָצָ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶֽת־מַעֲשֶֽׂיךָ׃

[Ecclesiastes 9:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.7/)

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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:176` 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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