Ecclesiastes 4:8 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: one, fool, end, eye, I, This · What happens: be, not have, have, labour, bereave · To what, where: son, soul, vanity, grievous business

This is Ecclesiastes 4:8 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 — one, fool, end, eye, I, This — and what happens in the verse to son, soul, vanity, grievous business, 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.

יֵ֣שׁ אֶחָד֩ וְאֵ֨ין שֵׁנִ֜י גַּ֣ם בֵּ֧ן וָאָ֣ח אֵֽין־ל֗וֹ וְאֵ֥ין קֵץ֙ לְכָל־עֲמָל֔וֹ גַּם־עֵינ֖וֹ לֹא־תִשְׂבַּ֣ע עֹ֑שֶׁר וּלְמִ֣י ׀ אֲנִ֣י עָמֵ֗ל וּמְחַסֵּ֤ר אֶת־נַפְשִׁי֙ מִטּוֹבָ֔ה גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֛בֶל וְעִנְיַ֥ן רָ֖ע הֽוּא׃

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches: 'for whom then do I labour, and bereave my soul of pleasure?' This also is vanity, yea, it is a grievous business.

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

yes

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

אִית גְּבַר יְחִידִי וְלֵית תִּנְיָן בָּר מִנֵּיהּ אַף בְּרָא וְאַף אֲחָא לֵית לֵיהּ לְמֵירַת יָת נִכְסוֹי וְלֵית סוֹף לְכָל טוֹרְחֵיהּ וְאַף עַיְנֵיהּ לָא תֵיכוֹל לְמִסְבַּע עָתְרֵיה וְלָא יֵימַר בְּלִבֵּיהּ לְמָא דְנָן אֲנָא טָרַח וּמְחַסֵר יָת נַפְשִׁי מִטִיבוּתָא אֲקוּם כְּעַן וְאַעֲבֵיד מִנֵּיהּ צִדְקְתָא וְאֶחֱדֵּי בְּעָלְמָא הָדֵין עִם בְּנֵי אֱנָשָׁא וּלְעָלְמָא דְּאָתֵי עִם צַדִּיקַיָּא אַף דֵּין הֲבָלוּ וְגַוָון בִּישׁ הוּא:

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. There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches: 'for whom then do I labour, and bereave my soul of pleasure?' This also is vanity, yea, it is a grievous business.

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