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title: Ecclesiastes 11:10 (JPS 1917) — Therefore remove vexation from thy heart, and put away evil from thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore remove vexation from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity. Who acts: you, childhood. Ecclesiastes 11:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 11:10 · JPS 1917

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Therefore remove vexation from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

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**Who acts:** you, childhood · **What happens:** remove, put away, be · **To what, where:** vexation, heart, evil, flesh, vanity

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This is Ecclesiastes 11:10 · 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 (you, childhood), 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:218
# text = Therefore remove vexation from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | imperative | you *not said here* | vexation |  | thy heart |  | therefore *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent vexation=Theme from heart=Source |
| 2 | **put away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | evil |  | thy flesh |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent evil=Goal |
| 3 | **is a** | present | childhood and youth | vanity |  |  |  |  | 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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וְהָסֵ֥ר כַּ֙עַס֙ מִלִּבֶּ֔ךָ וְהַעֲבֵ֥ר רָעָ֖ה מִבְּשָׂרֶ֑ךָ כִּֽי־הַיַּלְד֥וּת וְהַֽשַּׁחֲר֖וּת הָֽבֶל׃

[Ecclesiastes 11:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.11.10/)

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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:218` 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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