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title: Ecclesiastes 2:1 (JPS 1917) — I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy… · tree and pragmatics
description: I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity. Who acts: I, this. Ecclesiastes 2:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 2:1 · JPS 1917

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I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity.

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**Who acts:** I, this · **What happens:** say, come, try, enjoy, be · **To what, where:** heart, thee, pleasure, vanity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ecclesiastes 2:1 · 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, this), 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:18
# text = I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  | my heart |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | future | I | thee |  |  |  | with mirth | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Patient with mirth=Theme |
| 4 | **enjoy** | infinitive | I *not said here* | pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | this | vanity |  |  |  |  | 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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אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּלִבִּ֔י לְכָה־נָּ֛א אֲנַסְּכָ֛ה בְשִׂמְחָ֖ה וּרְאֵ֣ה בְט֑וֹב וְהִנֵּ֥ה גַם־ה֖וּא הָֽבֶל׃

[Ecclesiastes 2:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.1/)

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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:18` 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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