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title: Ecclesiastes 3:20 (JPS 1917) — All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust. · tree and pragmatics
description: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust. Who acts: All. Ecclesiastes 3:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 3:20 · JPS 1917

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All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust.

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**Who acts:** All · **What happens:** go, be, return

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This is Ecclesiastes 3:20 · 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 (All), 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:70
# text = All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
1	All	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **go** | present | All |  |  |  |  | unto one place | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | of the dust | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | present | all |  |  |  |  | to dust *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to dust=Result |

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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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הַכֹּ֥ל הוֹלֵ֖ךְ אֶל־מָק֣וֹם אֶחָ֑ד הַכֹּל֙ הָיָ֣ה מִן־הֶֽעָפָ֔ר וְהַכֹּ֖ל שָׁ֥ב אֶל־הֶעָפָֽר׃

[Ecclesiastes 3:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.20/)

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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:70` 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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