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title: Ecclesiastes 11:4 (JPS 1917) — He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Who acts: He. Ecclesiastes 11:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 11:4 · JPS 1917

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He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

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**Who acts:** He · **What happens:** observe, not sow, regard, not reap · **To what, where:** wind, clouds

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This is Ecclesiastes 11:4 · 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 (He), 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:211
# text = He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	observeth	observe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	sow	sow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	regardeth	regard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	reap	reap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **observe** | present |  | the wind |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wind=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **sow** | shall | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | present |  | the clouds |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **reap** | shall | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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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שֹׁמֵ֥ר ר֖וּחַ לֹ֣א יִזְרָ֑ע וְרֹאֶ֥ה בֶעָבִ֖ים לֹ֥א יִקְצֽוֹר׃

[Ecclesiastes 11:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.11.4/)

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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:211` 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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