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title: Ecclesiastes 11:7 (JPS 1917) — And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to b… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Who acts: light, it, eyes. Ecclesiastes 11:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 11:7 · JPS 1917

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And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

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**Who acts:** light, it, eyes · **What happens:** be, behold · **To what, where:** pleasant thing, sun.

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This is Ecclesiastes 11:7 · 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 (light, it, eyes), 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:214
# text = And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sun.	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | the light |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a pleasant thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | to-infinitive | the eyes | the sun. |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |

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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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וּמָת֖וֹק הָא֑וֹר וְט֥וֹב לַֽעֵינַ֖יִם לִרְא֥וֹת אֶת־הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

[Ecclesiastes 11:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.11.7/)

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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:214` 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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