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title: Ecclesiastes 3:17 (JPS 1917) — I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.' Who acts: I, God, time. Ecclesiastes 3:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 3:17 · JPS 1917

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I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.'

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**Who acts:** I, God, time · **What happens:** say, judge, be · **To what, where:** heart, righteous · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ecclesiastes 3:17 · 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 (I, God, time), 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:67
# text = I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	righteous	righteous	NOUN	JJ	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wicked	wicked	NOUN	JJ	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  | my heart |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **judge** | future | God | the righteous and the wicked |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent righteous=Value |
| 3 | **be** | present | a time |  |  | there; there |  | for every purpose and every work | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּלִבִּ֔י אֶת־הַצַּדִּיק֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣רָשָׁ֔ע יִשְׁפֹּ֖ט הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּי־עֵ֣ת לְכָל־חֵ֔פֶץ וְעַ֥ל כָּל־הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה שָֽׁם׃

[Ecclesiastes 3:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.17/)

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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:67` 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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