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title: Ecclesiastes 12:9 (JPS 1917) — And besides that Koheleth was wise, he also taught the people knowle… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ecclesiastes 12:9 · JPS 1917

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And besides that Koheleth was wise, he also taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

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**Who acts:** Koheleth · **What happens:** be, teach, ponder, seek out, set in · **To what, where:** knowledge, people, many proverbs

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This is Ecclesiastes 12:9 · 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 (Koheleth), 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:227
# text = And besides that Koheleth was wise, he also taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	Koheleth	Koheleth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	iobj	_	_
13	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pondered	ponder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	fixed	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## 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** | past | Koheleth |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Koheleth | knowledge | the people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient knowledge=Topic |
| 3 | **ponder** | past | Koheleth |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seek out** | past | Koheleth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set in** | past | Koheleth *not said here* | many proverbs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient proverb=Result |

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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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וְיֹתֵ֕ר שֶׁהָיָ֥ה קֹהֶ֖לֶת חָכָ֑ם ע֗וֹד לִמַּד־דַּ֙עַת֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם וְאִזֵּ֣ן וְחִקֵּ֔ר תִּקֵּ֖ן מְשָׁלִ֥ים הַרְבֵּֽה׃

[Ecclesiastes 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.9/)

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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:227` 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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