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title: Ecclesiastes 11:8 (JPS 1917) — For if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and remem… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ecclesiastes 11:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.

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**Who acts:** man, you, things · **What happens:** live, let, rejoice, remember, be · **To what, where:** man

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This is Ecclesiastes 11:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (man, you, things), 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:215
# text = For if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a man |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rejoice** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in things *= thing* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | shall | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |

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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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כִּ֣י אִם־שָׁנִ֥ים הַרְבֵּ֛ה יִחְיֶ֥ה הָאָדָ֖ם בְּכֻלָּ֣ם יִשְׂמָ֑ח וְיִזְכֹּר֙ אֶת־יְמֵ֣י הַחֹ֔שֶׁךְ כִּֽי־הַרְבֵּ֥ה יִהְי֖וּ כָּל־שֶׁבָּ֥א הָֽבֶל׃

[Ecclesiastes 11:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.11.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.**
2. [All that cometh is vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.216/)

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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:215` 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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