Ecclesiastes 12:4 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: sound, one · What happens: shut, be, start up, bring · To what, where: doors, street, voice, daughters

This is Ecclesiastes 12:4 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 — sound, one — and what happens in the verse to doors, street, voice, daughters, 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.

וְסֻגְּר֤וּ דְלָתַ֙יִם֙ בַּשּׁ֔וּק בִּשְׁפַ֖ל ק֣וֹל הַֽטַּחֲנָ֑ה וְיָקוּם֙ לְק֣וֹל הַצִּפּ֔וֹר וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ כָּל־בְּנ֥וֹת הַשִּֽׁיר׃

And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 סֻגְּר֤וּ	cc	and
2	סֻגְּר֤וּ	סָגַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=PUAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they will be shut up
3	דְלָתַ֙יִם֙	דֶּלֶת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	2 סֻגְּר֤וּ	nsubj	[the] doors
4	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	6 שּׁ֔וּק	case	on
5	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 שּׁ֔וּק	det	the
6	שּׁ֔וּק	שׁוּק	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 סֻגְּר֤וּ	obl	street
7	בִּ	בְּ	ADP	_	8 שְׁפַ֖ל	case	when
8	שְׁפַ֖ל	שָׁפָל	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	2 סֻגְּר֤וּ	advcl	becomes low
9	ק֣וֹל	קוֹל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 שְׁפַ֖ל	nsubj	the sound
10	הַֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 טַּחֲנָ֑ה	det	of
11	טַּחֲנָ֑ה	טַחֲנָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 ק֣וֹל	compound:smixut	the grinding mill
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 יָקוּם֙	cc	and
13	יָקוּם֙	קוּם	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 סֻגְּר֤וּ	conj	someone will arise
14	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	15 ק֣וֹל	case	to
15	ק֣וֹל	קוֹל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 יָקוּם֙	obl	the sound
16	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 צִּפּ֔וֹר	det	of (the)
17	צִּפּ֔וֹר	צִפּוֹר	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ק֣וֹל	compound:smixut	bird
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 יִשַּׁ֖חוּ	cc	and
19	יִשַּׁ֖חוּ	שָׁחַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 סֻגְּר֤וּ	conj	they will be reduced
20	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	19 יִשַּׁ֖חוּ	nsubj	all
21	בְּנ֥וֹת	בַּת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	20 כָּל־	compound:smixut	the daughters
22	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	23 שִּֽׁיר	det	of (the)
23	שִּֽׁיר	שִׁיר	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 בְּנ֥וֹת	compound:smixut	song
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 שִּֽׁיר	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
סֻגְּרוּ they will be shut up	weqatal · pual		דְלָתַיִם [the] doors
שְׁפַל becomes low	infinitive construct · qal	קוֹל the sound
יָקוּם someone will arise	yiqtol · qal
יִשַּׁחוּ they will be reduced	yiqtol · niphal	בְּנוֹת the daughters

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

וִיהוֹן רִיגְלָךְ כְּבִילָן מִלְּמִפַּק בְּשׁוּקָא וְיַעֲדִי מִנָּךְ רְעוּת מֵיכְלָא וּתְהֵי מִתְּעַר מִשֵּׁינָתָךְ עַל עֵיסַק קַל עוֹפָא כְּאִלּוּ עַל גַּנָּבַיָּא דְּאָזְלִין בְּלֵילְיָא וְיִתְרָפְסוּן סִפְוָתָךְ מִלְּמֵימַר שִׁירָתָא:

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.

And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

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:211.

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