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title: Ecclesiastes 10:17 (JPS 1917) — Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness! Who acts: thou, king, princes. Ecclesiastes 10:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 10:17 · JPS 1917

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Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!

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**Who acts:** thou, king, princes · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** free man, strength

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This is Ecclesiastes 10:17 · 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 (thou, king, princes), 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:204
# text = Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	drunkenness	drunkenness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | land *vocative*; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | thy king | a free man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | thy princes |  |  | strength | season | in drunkenness | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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אַשְׁרֵ֣יךְ אֶ֔רֶץ שֶׁמַּלְכֵּ֖ךְ בֶּן־חוֹרִ֑ים וְשָׂרַ֙יִךְ֙ בָּעֵ֣ת יֹאכֵ֔לוּ בִּגְבוּרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א בַשְּׁתִֽי׃

[Ecclesiastes 10:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.17/)

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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:204` 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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