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title: Ecclesiastes 3:11 (JPS 1917) — He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the… · tree and pragmatics
description: He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end. Who acts: God, man. Ecclesiastes 3:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 3:11 · JPS 1917

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He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

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**Who acts:** God, man · **What happens:** make, set, not find out, do · **To what, where:** thing, world, heart, work, beginning

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This is Ecclesiastes 3:11 · 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 (God, man), 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:61
# text = He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **make** | present · perfect | God | every thing |  |  | time | beautiful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Product |
| 2 | **set** | present · perfect | God | the world |  | sons's heart |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent world=Theme in heart=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **find out** | can | man | the work |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | present · perfect | God | the work |  |  | from the beginning; to the end |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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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אֶת־הַכֹּ֥ל עָשָׂ֖ה יָפֶ֣ה בְעִתּ֑וֹ גַּ֤ם אֶת־הָעֹלָם֙ נָתַ֣ן בְּלִבָּ֔ם מִבְּלִ֞י אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹא־יִמְצָ֣א הָאָדָ֗ם אֶת־הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים מֵרֹ֥אשׁ וְעַד־סֽוֹף׃

[Ecclesiastes 3:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.11/)

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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:61` 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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