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title: Ecclesiastes 2:8 (JPS 1917) — I gathered me also silver and gold, and treasure such as kings and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: I gathered me also silver and gold, and treasure such as kings and the provinces have as their own; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, women very many. Who acts: I, kings, sons. Ecclesiastes 2:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Ecclesiastes 2:8 · JPS 1917

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I gathered me also silver and gold, and treasure such as kings and the provinces have as their own; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, women very many.

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**Who acts:** I, kings, sons · **What happens:** gather, have, get, delight · **To what, where:** silver, me, men singers

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This is Ecclesiastes 2:8 · 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, kings, sons), 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:25
# text = I gathered me also silver and gold, and treasure such as kings and the provinces have as their own; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, women very many.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
10	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	appos	_	_
43	very	very	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **gather** | past | I | silver and gold and treasure | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary silver=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | kings and the provinces |  |  |  |  | as kings's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | past | I | men singers and women singers and the delights of the sons of men | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary singer=Theme |
| 4 | **delight** |  | the sons of men |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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כָּנַ֤סְתִּי לִי֙ גַּם־כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֔ב וּסְגֻלַּ֥ת מְלָכִ֖ים וְהַמְּדִינ֑וֹת עָשִׂ֨יתִי לִ֜י שָׁרִ֣ים וְשָׁר֗וֹת וְתַעֲנוּגֹ֛ת בְּנֵ֥י הָאָדָ֖ם שִׁדָּ֥ה וְשִׁדּֽוֹת׃

[Ecclesiastes 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.8/)

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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:25` 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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