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title: Ecclesiastes 12:10 (JPS 1917) — Koheleth sought to find out words of delight, and that which was wri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Koheleth sought to find out words of delight, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth. Who acts: Koheleth. Ecclesiastes 12:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 12:10 · JPS 1917

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Koheleth sought to find out words of delight, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.

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**Who acts:** Koheleth · **What happens:** seek, find out, write, word · **To what, where:** words, delight, truth

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This is Ecclesiastes 12:10 · 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 (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:228
# text = Koheleth sought to find out words of delight, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.
1	Koheleth	Koheleth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	conj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	uprightly	uprightly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **seek** | past | Koheleth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Koheleth *not said here* | words of delight |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **write** | past · passive |  | words of truth |  |  |  | uprightly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | delight |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | truth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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בִּקֵּ֣שׁ קֹהֶ֔לֶת לִמְצֹ֖א דִּבְרֵי־חֵ֑פֶץ וְכָת֥וּב יֹ֖שֶׁר דִּבְרֵ֥י אֱמֶֽת׃

[Ecclesiastes 12:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.10/)

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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:228` 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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