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title: Ecclesiastes 12:12 (JPS 1917) — And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there i… · tree and pragmatics
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# Ecclesiastes 12:12 · JPS 1917

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And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

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**Who acts:** end, much study · **What happens:** admonish, make, be · **To what, where:** many books, weariness

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This is Ecclesiastes 12:12 · 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 (end, much study), 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:230
# text = And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	furthermore	furthermore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	admonished	admonish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admonish** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | my son *vocative*; furthermore *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | no end *not said here* | many books |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset book=Product |
| 3 | **be** | present | no end |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | much study | a weariness |  |  |  | of the flesh | 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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וְיֹתֵ֥ר מֵהֵ֖מָּה בְּנִ֣י הִזָּהֵ֑ר עֲשׂ֨וֹת סְפָרִ֤ים הַרְבֵּה֙ אֵ֣ין קֵ֔ץ וְלַ֥הַג הַרְבֵּ֖ה יְגִעַ֥ת בָּשָֽׂר׃

[Ecclesiastes 12:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.12/)

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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:230` 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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