Ecclesiastes 3:12 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: I, men · What happens: know, rejoice, get, live · To what, where: pleasure

This is Ecclesiastes 3:12 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, men — and what happens in the verse to pleasure, 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.

יָדַ֕עְתִּי כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין ט֖וֹב בָּ֑ם כִּ֣י אִם־לִשְׂמ֔וֹחַ וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת ט֖וֹב בְּחַיָּֽיו׃

I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live.

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	יָדַ֕עְתִּי	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I know
2	כִּ֛י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	3 אֵ֥ין	mark	(dm) that
3	אֵ֥ין	אַיִן	ADV	_	1 יָדַ֕עְתִּי	ccomp	there [is] not
4	ט֖וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 אֵ֥ין	nsubj	good
5	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	6 ָ֑ם	case	for
6	ָ֑ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 אֵ֥ין	obl	them
7	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 שְׂמ֔וֹחַ	mark	(dm)
8	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	7 כִּ֣י	fixed	(if)
9	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	10 שְׂמ֔וֹחַ	case	to
10	שְׂמ֔וֹחַ	שָׂמַח	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	3 אֵ֥ין	parataxis	rejoice
11	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 עֲשׂ֥וֹת	cc	and
12	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	13 עֲשׂ֥וֹת	case	to
13	עֲשׂ֥וֹת	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	10 שְׂמ֔וֹחַ	conj	do
14	ט֖וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 עֲשׂ֥וֹת	obj	good
15	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	16 חַיָּֽי	case	in
16	חַיָּֽי	חַיִּים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 עֲשׂ֥וֹת	obl	life
17	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 חַיָּֽי	nmod:poss	his
18	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	17 ו	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: speech with no frame
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	what, whom (A1)
not יָדַעְתִּי I know	qatal · qal	אֵין there [is] not + שְׂמוֹחַ rejoice + עֲשׂוֹת do
שְׂמוֹחַ rejoice	infinitive construct · qal
עֲשׂוֹת do	infinitive construct · qal	טוֹב good

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

אָמַר שְׁלֹמֹה מַלְכָּא בְּרוּחַ נְבִיָא יְדָעִית אֲרוּם לֵית טָב בְּהוֹן בִּבְנֵי אֱנָשָׁא אֲרוּם אֲלָהֵין לְמֶחֱדֵּי בְּחֶדְוַת אוֹרָיְתָא וּלְמֶעֱבַד טָב בְּיוֹמֵי חַיּוֹהִי:

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.

I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live.

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:55.

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