--- title: Ecclesiastes 2:21 (JPS 1917) — This also is vanity and a great evil. · tree and pragmatics description: This also is vanity and a great evil. Who acts: This. Ecclesiastes 2:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.42/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/2/) / [2:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.21/) / JPS 2 # Ecclesiastes 2:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 This also is vanity and a great evil. **Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** vanity This is Ecclesiastes 2:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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), 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:42 # text = This also is vanity and a great evil. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 vanity vanity NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | This | vanity and a great evil | | | | | tree rules | 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} כִּי־יֵ֣שׁ אָדָ֗ם שֶׁעֲמָל֛וֹ בְּחָכְמָ֥ה וּבְדַ֖עַת וּבְכִשְׁר֑וֹן וּלְאָדָ֞ם שֶׁלֹּ֤א עָֽמַל־בּוֹ֙ יִתְּנֶ֣נּוּ חֶלְק֔וֹ גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וְרָעָ֥ה רַבָּֽה׃ [Ecclesiastes 2:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.21/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.41/) 2. **This also is vanity and a great evil.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:42` 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 2:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.41/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 2:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.43/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 2:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.21/)