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title: Ecclesiastes 12:11 (JPS 1917) — The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd. Who acts: words, nails. Ecclesiastes 12:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 12:11 · JPS 1917

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The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.

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**Who acts:** words, nails · **What happens:** be, fasten, compose, give, word · **To what, where:** nails, collections, words, wise

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This is Ecclesiastes 12:11 · 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 (words, nails), 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:229
# text = The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wise	wise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	goads	goad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | present | the words of the wise |  |  |  |  | as goads | tree rules |
| 2 | **fasten** | participle |  | nails *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | nails |  |  |  |  | as those | tree rules |
| 4 | **compose** | present · passive |  |  |  | collections |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **give** | present · passive |  | words *= word* |  |  |  | from one shepherd | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | the wise |  |  |  |  | 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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דִּבְרֵ֤י חֲכָמִים֙ כַּדָּ֣רְבֹנ֔וֹת וּֽכְמַשְׂמְר֥וֹת נְטוּעִ֖ים בַּעֲלֵ֣י אֲסֻפּ֑וֹת נִתְּנ֖וּ מֵרֹעֶ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

[Ecclesiastes 12:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.11/)

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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:229` 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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