Ecclesiastes 1:17 קֹהֶלֶת
Who acts: I, this · What happens: apply, know, perceive, be · To what, where: heart, wisdom, madness, striving
This is Ecclesiastes 1:17 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, this — and what happens in the verse to heart, wisdom, madness, striving, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 12 chapters of Ecclesiastes on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.
וָאֶתְּנָ֤ה לִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת חָכְמָ֔ה וְדַ֥עַת הוֹלֵל֖וֹת וְשִׂכְל֑וּת יָדַ֕עְתִּי שֶׁגַּם־זֶ֥ה ה֖וּא רַעְי֥וֹן רֽוּחַ׃
The tree
Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation | gloss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | וָ | וְ | CCONJ | _ | 2 אֶתְּנ | cc | and |
| 2 | אֶתְּנ | נָתַן | VERB | Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1 | root | root | I |
| 3 | ָ֤ה | ה | X | _ | 2 אֶתְּנ | nmod | gave |
| 4 | לִבּ | לֵב | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 2 אֶתְּנ | obj | heart |
| 5 | ִי֙ | הוּא | PRON | Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 לִבּ | nmod:poss | my |
| 6 | לָ | לְ | ADP | _ | 7 דַ֣עַת | case | to |
| 7 | דַ֣עַת | יָדַע | VERB | HebBinyan=QAL | 2 אֶתְּנ | advcl | know |
| 8 | חָכְמָ֔ה | חׇכְמָה | NOUN | Gender=Fem Number=Sing | 7 דַ֣עַת | obj | wisdom |
| 9 | וְ | וְ | CCONJ | _ | 10 דַ֥עַת | cc | and |
| 10 | דַ֥עַת | דַּעַת | VERB | HebBinyan=QAL | 7 דַ֣עַת | conj | to know |
| 11 | הוֹלֵל֖וֹת | הוֹלֵלָה | NOUN | Gender=Fem Number=Plur | 10 דַ֥עַת | obj | madness(es) |
| 12 | וְ | וְ | CCONJ | _ | 13 שִׂכְל֑וּת | cc | and |
| 13 | שִׂכְל֑וּת | שִׂכְלוּת | NOUN | Gender=Fem Number=Sing | 11 הוֹלֵל֖וֹת | conj | folly |
| 14 | יָדַ֕עְתִּי | יָדַע | VERB | Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1 | 2 אֶתְּנ | parataxis | I knew |
| 15 | שֶׁ | שֶׁ | SCONJ | _ | 17 זֶ֥ה | mark | (cmp) |
| 16 | גַּם־ | גַּם | ADV | _ | 17 זֶ֥ה | advmod | also |
| 17 | זֶ֥ה | זֶה | PRON | Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 יָדַ֕עְתִּי | acl:relcl | this |
| 18 | ה֖וּא | הוּא | PRON | Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 רַעְי֥וֹן | nsubj | it |
| 19 | רַעְי֥וֹן | רַעְיוֹן | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 17 זֶ֥ה | parataxis | [is] a striving |
| 20 | רֽוּחַ | רוּחַ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 רַעְי֥וֹן | compound:smixut | of wind |
| 21 | ׃ | ׃ | PUNCT | _ | 20 רֽוּחַ | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- speech
- inside a quote begun earlier
- negation
- no
| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶתְּנ I | wayyiqtol · qal | לִבּ heart | |||
| דַעַת know | infinitive construct · qal | חָכְמָה wisdom | |||
| דַעַת to know | infinitive construct · qal | הוֹלֵלוֹת madness(es) + שִׂכְלוּת folly | |||
| יָדַעְתִּי I knew | qatal · qal | רַעְיוֹן [is] a striving |
MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.
The Targum
וִיהָבִית לְבָבִי לְמִדַע חוּכְמְתָא וְחוּלְחַלְתָּא דְּמַלְכוּתָא וּמַנְדְּעָא וְסוּכְלְתָנוּ בְּחָנִית לְמֵדַּע דְּאַף דֵּין הוּא תְּבִירוּת רוּחָא לִגְבַר דְּמִשְׁתַּדֵל לְמִשְׁכַּח יַתְהוֹן:
The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.
English, JPS 1917
Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.
English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).
Hebrew sentence wlc:ECC:16.
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