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title: Ecclesiastes 9:15 (JPS 1917) — now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he by his wisdom… · tree and pragmatics
description: now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Who acts: man. Ecclesiastes 9:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 9:15 · JPS 1917

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now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** find, deliver, remember · **To what, where:** man, sun, city, same poor man

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This is Ecclesiastes 9:15 · 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 (man), 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:184
# text = now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
1	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | a man |  | sun; there | now |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **deliver** | past | man | the city |  |  |  | by man's wisdom | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 3 | **remember** | past | no man | that same poor man |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme |

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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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וּמָ֣צָא בָ֗הּ אִ֤ישׁ מִסְכֵּן֙ חָכָ֔ם וּמִלַּט־ה֥וּא אֶת־הָעִ֖יר בְּחָכְמָת֑וֹ וְאָדָם֙ לֹ֣א זָכַ֔ר אֶת־הָאִ֥ישׁ הַמִּסְכֵּ֖ן הַהּֽוּא׃

[Ecclesiastes 9:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.15/)

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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:184` 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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