---
title: Ecclesiastes 12:13 (JPS 1917) — The end of the matter, all having been heard: fear God, and keep His… · tree and pragmatics
description: The end of the matter, all having been heard: fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole man. Who acts: this, end. Ecclesiastes 12:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.231/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Ecclesiastes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/12/) / [12:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.13/) / JPS 1

# Ecclesiastes 12:13 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The end of the matter, all having been heard: fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole man.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** this, end · **What happens:** hear, fear, keep, be, command · **To what, where:** all, God, commandments, whole man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Ecclesiastes 12:13 · 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 (this, end), 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:231
# text = The end of the matter, all having been heard: fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fear** | infinitive |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive |  | end's commandments |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | the whole man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** |  | end |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
ס֥וֹף דָּבָ֖ר הַכֹּ֣ל נִשְׁמָ֑ע אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִ֤ים יְרָא֙ וְאֶת־מִצְוֺתָ֣יו שְׁמ֔וֹר כִּי־זֶ֖ה כָּל־הָאָדָֽם׃

[Ecclesiastes 12:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.13/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:231` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 12:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.230/)
- next →: [Ecclesiastes 12:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.232/)
- ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 12:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.13/)