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title: Ecclesiastes 10:14 (JPS 1917) — A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him? Who acts: fool, man. Ecclesiastes 10:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 10:14 · JPS 1917

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A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

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**Who acts:** fool, man · **What happens:** multiply, not know, be, tell · **To what, where:** words, fool · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ecclesiastes 10:14 · 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 (fool, 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:201
# text = A fool also multiplieth words; yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	multiplieth	multiply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	conj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **multiply** | present | a fool | words |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | shall |  |  |  |  | after fool |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can |  |  | fool |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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וְהַסָּכָ֖ל יַרְבֶּ֣ה דְבָרִ֑ים לֹא־יֵדַ֤ע הָאָדָם֙ מַה־שֶׁיִּֽהְיֶ֔ה וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִֽהְיֶה֙ מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יו מִ֖י יַגִּ֥יד לֽוֹ׃

[Ecclesiastes 10:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.14/)

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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:201` 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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