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title: Ecclesiastes 3:5 (JPS 1917) — A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; Ecclesiastes 3:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 3:5 · JPS 1917

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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

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**What happens:** cast away, gather, embrace, refrain · **To what, where:** stones

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This is Ecclesiastes 3:5 · 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: 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:55
# text = A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	away	away	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	embracing	embrace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	;	;	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 | **cast away** | to-infinitive |  | stones |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Product |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive |  | stones |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 3 | **embrace** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **refrain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **embrace** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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עֵ֚ת לְהַשְׁלִ֣יךְ אֲבָנִ֔ים וְעֵ֖ת כְּנ֣וֹס אֲבָנִ֑ים עֵ֣ת לַחֲב֔וֹק וְעֵ֖ת לִרְחֹ֥ק מֵחַבֵּֽק׃

[Ecclesiastes 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.5/)

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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:55` 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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