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title: Ecclesiastes 10:9 (JPS 1917) — Whoso quarrieth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso quarrieth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby. Who acts: stones. Ecclesiastes 10:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 10:9 · JPS 1917

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Whoso quarrieth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

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**Who acts:** stones · **What happens:** quarry, hurt, cleave, endangered · **To what, where:** stones, wood, serpent

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This is Ecclesiastes 10:9 · 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 (stones), 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:196
# text = Whoso quarrieth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.
1	Whoso	whoso	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	det	_	_
2	quarrieth	quarry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cleaveth	cleave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	endangered	endangered	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **quarry** | present | whoso stones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | shall · passive |  | whoso stones |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **cleave** | present |  | wood |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
| 4 | **endangered** | present · passive |  | serpent |  |  |  | thereby *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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מַסִּ֣יעַ אֲבָנִ֔ים יֵעָצֵ֖ב בָּהֶ֑ם בּוֹקֵ֥עַ עֵצִ֖ים יִסָּ֥כֶן בָּֽם׃

[Ecclesiastes 10:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.9/)

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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:196` 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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