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title: Ecclesiastes 10:19 (JPS 1917) — A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and mon… · tree and pragmatics
description: A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things. Who acts: wine, money. Ecclesiastes 10:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 10:19 · JPS 1917

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.

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**Who acts:** wine, money · **What happens:** make, answer · **To what, where:** feast, life, things

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This is Ecclesiastes 10:19 · 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 (wine, money), 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:206
# text = A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	answereth	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **make** | present · passive |  | a feast |  |  |  | for laughter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for laughter=Asset |
| 2 | **make** | present | wine | the life |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material life=Product |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | money | all things |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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לִשְׂחוֹק֙ עֹשִׂ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם וְיַ֖יִן יְשַׂמַּ֣ח חַיִּ֑ים וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃

[Ecclesiastes 10:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.19/)

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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:206` 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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