--- title: Ecclesiastes 2:10 (JPS 1917) — And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld no… · tree and pragmatics description: And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart had joy of all my labour; and this was my portion from all my labour. Who acts: eyes, I, heart, this. 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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 (eyes, I, heart, this), 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:27 # text = And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart had joy of all my labour; and this was my portion from all my labour. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 whatsoever whatsoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 3 mine mine PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 desired desire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 withheld withhold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 25 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 portion portion NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **desire** | past | mine eyes | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **not** **keep** | past | I | whatsoever | | | | from eyes *= eye* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer whatsoever=Beneficiary from they=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **withhold** | past | I | my heart | | any joy | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | my heart | joy of my labour | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | past | this | my portion | | my labour | | | tree rules | | 6 | **joy** | | | my labour | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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} וְכֹל֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָֽׁאֲל֣וּ עֵינַ֔י לֹ֥א אָצַ֖לְתִּי מֵהֶ֑ם לֹֽא־מָנַ֨עְתִּי אֶת־לִבִּ֜י מִכָּל־שִׂמְחָ֗ה כִּֽי־לִבִּ֤י שָׂמֵ֙חַ֙ מִכָּל־עֲמָלִ֔י וְזֶֽה־הָיָ֥ה חֶלְקִ֖י מִכָּל־עֲמָלִֽי׃ [Ecclesiastes 2:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:27` 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. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 2:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.26/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 2:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.28/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 2:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.10/)