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title: Ecclesiastes 2:23 (JPS 1917) — For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even i… · tree and pragmatics
description: For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even in the night his heart taketh not rest. Who acts: days, heart, wisdom. Ecclesiastes 2:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 2:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even in the night his heart taketh not rest.

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**Who acts:** days, heart, wisdom · **What happens:** be, rest, vex · **To what, where:** pains

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This is Ecclesiastes 2:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (days, heart, wisdom), 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:44
# text = For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even in the night his heart taketh not rest.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
13	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	taketh	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | wisdom's days | pains and wisdom's occupation vexation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | present | wisdom's heart |  |  |  | night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **vex** |  | wisdom |  |  |  |  |  | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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כִּ֧י כָל־יָמָ֣יו מַכְאֹבִ֗ים וָכַ֙עַס֙ עִנְיָנ֔וֹ גַּם־בַּלַּ֖יְלָה לֹא־שָׁכַ֣ב לִבּ֑וֹ גַּם־זֶ֖ה הֶ֥בֶל הֽוּא׃

[Ecclesiastes 2:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even in the night his heart taketh not rest.**
2. [This also is vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.45/)

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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:44` 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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