--- title: Ecclesiastes 4:4 (JPS 1917) — This also is vanity and a striving after wind. · tree and pragmatics description: This also is vanity and a striving after wind. Who acts: This. Ecclesiastes 4:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.77/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Ecclesiastes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/4/) / [4:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.4/) / JPS 2 # Ecclesiastes 4:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 This also is vanity and a striving after wind. **Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** vanity This is Ecclesiastes 4:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (This), 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:77 # text = This also is vanity and a striving after wind. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 vanity vanity NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 striving strive NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | This | vanity and a striving after wind | | | | | tree rules | 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} וְרָאִ֨יתִֽי אֲנִ֜י אֶת־כָּל־עָמָ֗ל וְאֵת֙ כָּל־כִּשְׁר֣וֹן הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה כִּ֛י הִ֥יא קִנְאַת־אִ֖ישׁ מֵרֵעֵ֑הוּ גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃ [Ecclesiastes 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.4/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man's rivalry with his neighbour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.76/) 2. **This also is vanity and a striving after wind.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ECC:77` 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. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 4:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.76/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 4:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.78/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 4:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.4/)