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title: Ecclesiastes 1:4 (JPS 1917) — One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for ever. Who acts: One generation, generation, earth. Ecclesiastes 1:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 1:4 · JPS 1917

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One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for ever.

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**Who acts:** One generation, generation, earth · **What happens:** pass away, come, abide

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This is Ecclesiastes 1:4 · 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 (One generation, generation, earth), 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:3
# text = One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for ever.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passeth	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	abideth	abide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **pass away** | present | One generation |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | present | another generation |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **abide** | present | the earth |  |  |  |  |  | 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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דּ֤וֹר הֹלֵךְ֙ וְד֣וֹר בָּ֔א וְהָאָ֖רֶץ לְעוֹלָ֥ם עֹמָֽדֶת׃

[Ecclesiastes 1:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.1.4/)

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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:3` 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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