--- title: Ecclesiastes 12:6 (JPS 1917) — Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is sh… · tree and pragmatics description: Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit; Who acts: wheel. 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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 (wheel), 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:224 # text = Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit; 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 snapped snap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 7 asunder asunder ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 shattered shatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 falleth fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 shattered shatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snap** | present · passive | | the silver cord | | | | asunder *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **shatter** | present · passive | | the golden bowl | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **break** | present · passive | | the pitcher | | the fountain | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **fall** | present | the wheel | | | the pit | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **shatter** | participle | the wheel *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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} עַ֣ד אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־יֵרָתֵק֙ חֶ֣בֶל הַכֶּ֔סֶף וְתָרֻ֖ץ גֻּלַּ֣ת הַזָּהָ֑ב וְתִשָּׁ֤בֶר כַּד֙ עַל־הַמַּבּ֔וּעַ וְנָרֹ֥ץ הַגַּלְגַּ֖ל אֶל־הַבּֽוֹר׃ [Ecclesiastes 12:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:224` 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. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 12:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.223/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 12:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.225/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 12:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.6/)