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title: Ecclesiastes 3:13 (JPS 1917) — But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for… · tree and pragmatics
description: But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God. Who acts: man. Ecclesiastes 3:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 3:13 · JPS 1917

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But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** eat, drink, enjoy, be · **To what, where:** pleasure, gift

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This is Ecclesiastes 3:13 · 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 (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:63
# text = But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	csubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | should | every man |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | every man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enjoy** | infinitive | every man *not said here* | pleasure |  |  |  | for God's labour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus for labour=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the gift |  |  |  | of God | 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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וְגַ֤ם כָּל־הָאָדָם֙ שֶׁיֹּאכַ֣ל וְשָׁתָ֔ה וְרָאָ֥ה ט֖וֹב בְּכָל־עֲמָל֑וֹ מַתַּ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽיא׃

[Ecclesiastes 3:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.13/)

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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:63` 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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