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title: Ecclesiastes 2:7 (JPS 1917) — I acquired men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in… · tree and pragmatics
description: I acquired men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem; Who acts: I. Ecclesiastes 2:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 2:7 · JPS 1917

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I acquired men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** acquire, have, bear, be, possess · **To what, where:** men servants, servants, house, great possessions, all, Jerusalem

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This is Ecclesiastes 2:7 · 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 (I), 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:24
# text = I acquired men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	above	above	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	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 | **acquire** | past | I | men servants and maid servants |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | I *not said here* | servants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | servants *not said here* |  | my house |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past | I | great possessions of herds and flocks |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Jerusalem | before me |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | herds and flocks |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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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קָנִ֙יתִי֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים וּשְׁפָח֔וֹת וּבְנֵי־בַ֖יִת הָ֣יָה לִ֑י גַּ֣ם מִקְנֶה֩ בָקָ֨ר וָצֹ֤אן הַרְבֵּה֙ הָ֣יָה לִ֔י מִכֹּ֛ל שֶֽׁהָי֥וּ לְפָנַ֖י בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Ecclesiastes 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.7/)

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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:24` 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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