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title: Ecclesiastes 10:11 (JPS 1917) — If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then the charmer hath no a… · tree and pragmatics
description: If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then the charmer hath no advantage. Who acts: serpent, charmer. Ecclesiastes 10:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 10:11 · JPS 1917

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If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then the charmer hath no advantage.

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**Who acts:** serpent, charmer · **What happens:** bite, charm, have · **To what, where:** iron, advantage

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This is Ecclesiastes 10:11 · 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 (serpent, charmer), 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:198
# text = If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then the charmer hath no advantage.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	charmed	charm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	charmer	charmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **bite** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the serpent |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **charm** | present · passive |  | iron |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | present | the charmer | no advantage |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient |

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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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אִם־יִשֹּׁ֥ךְ הַנָּחָ֖שׁ בְּלוֹא־לָ֑חַשׁ וְאֵ֣ין יִתְר֔וֹן לְבַ֖עַל הַלָּשֽׁוֹן׃

[Ecclesiastes 10:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.11/)

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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:198` 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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