Ecclesiastes 2:12 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: I, man · What happens: turn, behold, do, come · To what, where: myself, wisdom

This is Ecclesiastes 2:12 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, man — and what happens in the verse to myself, wisdom, 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.

וּפָנִ֤יתִֽי אֲנִי֙ לִרְא֣וֹת חָכְמָ֔ה וְהוֹלֵל֖וֹת וְסִכְל֑וּת כִּ֣י ׀ מֶ֣ה הָאָדָ֗ם שֶׁיָּבוֹא֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־כְּבָ֖ר עָשֽׂוּהוּ׃

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

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	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 פָנִ֤יתִֽי	cc	and
2	פָנִ֤יתִֽי	פָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I turned
3	אֲנִי֙	אֲנִי	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 פָנִ֤יתִֽי	nsubj	I
4	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	5 רְא֣וֹת	case	to
5	רְא֣וֹת	רָאָה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	2 פָנִ֤יתִֽי	advcl	consider
6	חָכְמָ֔ה	חׇכְמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	5 רְא֣וֹת	obj	wisdom
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 הוֹלֵל֖וֹת	cc	and
8	הוֹלֵל֖וֹת	הוֹלֵלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	6 חָכְמָ֔ה	conj	madness(es)
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 סִכְל֑וּת	cc	and
10	סִכְל֑וּת	סִכְלוּת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	6 חָכְמָ֔ה	conj	folly
11	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	13 מֶ֣ה	mark	(dm)
12	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	11 כִּ֣י	punct
13	מֶ֣ה	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	2 פָנִ֤יתִֽי	advcl	what?
14	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 אָדָ֗ם	det	[is] the
15	אָדָ֗ם	אָדָם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 מֶ֣ה	nsubj	person
16	שֶׁ	שֶׁ	SCONJ	_	17 יָּבוֹא֙	mark	who
17	יָּבוֹא֙	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	15 אָדָ֗ם	acl:relcl	he will come
18	אַחֲרֵ֣י	אַחַר	ADP	_	20 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	case	after
19	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 מֶּ֔לֶךְ	det	the
20	מֶּ֔לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 יָּבוֹא֙	obl	king
21	אֵ֥ת	אֵת	ADP	_	2 פָנִ֤יתִֽי	parataxis	(et)
22	אֲשֶׁר־	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	24 עָשֽׂוּ	mark	[that] which
23	כְּבָ֖ר	כְּבָר	ADV	_	24 עָשֽׂוּ	advmod	already
24	עָשֽׂוּ	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	21 אֵ֥ת	acl:relcl	people
25	הוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 עָשֽׂוּ	obj	have done it
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 הוּ	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
פָנִיתִֽי I turned	qatal · qal	אֲנִי I
רְאוֹת consider	infinitive construct · qal		חָכְמָה wisdom + הוֹלֵלוֹת madness(es) + סִכְלוּת folly
יָּבוֹא he will come	yiqtol · qal	אָדָם person
עָשֽׂוּ people	qatal · qal		הוּ have done it

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

וְאִסְתַּכָּלִית אֲנָא לְמֶחֱזֵי חוּכְמְתָא וְחַלְחוּלְתָּא דְּמַלְכוּתָא וְסוּכְלְתָנוּ אֲרוּם מָה הֲנָאָה אִית לִגְבַר לְצַלָּאָה בָּתַר גְּזֵירַת מַלְכָּא וּבָתַר פּוּרְעָנוּתָא דְהָא כְּבָר אִתְגַזְרַת עֲלוֹהִי וְאִתְעֲבִידַת לֵיהּ:

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 I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

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:29.

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