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title: Ecclesiastes 5:1 (JPS 1917) — Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few. Who acts: you, heart, God, words. Ecclesiastes 5:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ecclesiastes 5:1 · JPS 1917

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Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.

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**Who acts:** you, heart, God, words, thy · **What happens:** not be, let, be, utter, word · **To what, where:** heart, word, heaven, words

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This is Ecclesiastes 5:1 · 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 (you, heart, God, words), 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:92
# text = Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	rash	rash	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thy mouth; rash *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy heart |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | thy heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hasty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | thy heart *not said here* | a word |  |  | before God |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present | God |  |  | heaven and earth |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  | thy words |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | infinitive | thy words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | few *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **word** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אַל־תְּבַהֵ֨ל עַל־פִּ֜יךָ וְלִבְּךָ֧ אַל־יְמַהֵ֛ר לְהוֹצִ֥יא דָבָ֖ר לִפְנֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֤ים בַּשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְאַתָּ֣ה עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ עַֽל־כֵּ֛ןיִהְי֥וּ דְבָרֶ֖יךָ מְעַטִּֽים׃

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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:92` 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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