Ecclesiastes 3:18 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: I, heart, God, men · What happens: say, be, sift, see · To what, where: heart, men · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Ecclesiastes 3:18 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, heart, God, men — and what happens in the verse to heart, men, 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.

אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּלִבִּ֔י עַל־דִּבְרַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י הָאָדָ֔ם לְבָרָ֖ם הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְלִרְא֕וֹת שְׁהֶם־בְּהֵמָ֥ה הֵ֖מָּה לָהֶֽם׃

I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.'

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.

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

character

speech

inside a quote begun earlier

negation

no

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

אֲמַרִית אֲנָא בְּלִבִּי עַל עֵיסַק בְּנֵי אֱנָשָׁא דְּיֵיתֵי עֲלֵיהוֹן מַכְתָּשִׁין וּמַרְעִין בִּישִׁין בְּגִין לְנַסּוֹאֵיהוֹן וּבְגִין לְמִבְחַנְהוֹן עֲבַד יְיָ לְמִחְזֵי אִין תָּיְבִין בִּתְיוּבְתָּא יִשְׁתְּבֵיק לְהוֹן וִיִתְּסוּן וְרַשִּׁיעַיָּא דִי אִינוּן כִּבְעִירָא לָא תָּיְבִין בְּגִין כֵּן אִנּוּן מִתְוַכְּחִין בְּהוֹן לְאַבְאָשָׁא לְהוֹן:

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.

1. I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.'

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