Ecclesiastes 5:15 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: this, evil · What happens: be, come, go, have, labour · To what, where: grievous evil, points, profit

This is Ecclesiastes 5:15 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 — this, evil — and what happens in the verse to grievous evil, points, profit, 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.

וְגַם־זֹה֙ רָעָ֣ה חוֹלָ֔ה כָּל־עֻמַּ֥ת שֶׁבָּ֖א כֵּ֣ן יֵלֵ֑ךְ וּמַה־יִּתְר֣וֹן ל֔וֹ שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל לָרֽוּחַ׃

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?

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	_	4 רָעָ֣ה	cc	and
2	גַם־	גַּם	ADV	_	4 רָעָ֣ה	advmod	also
3	זֹה֙	זֹה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 רָעָ֣ה	nsubj	this
4	רָעָ֣ה	רָעָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	root	root	[is] an evil
5	חוֹלָ֔ה	חָלָה	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	4 רָעָ֣ה	nmod	severe
6	כָּ	כֹּל	ADP	_	8 עֻמַּ֥ת	case	like
7	ל־	כֹּל	ADP	_	8 עֻמַּ֥ת	case
8	עֻמַּ֥ת	עֻמָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	12 יֵלֵ֑ךְ	obl	exactly as
9	שֶׁ	שֶׁ	SCONJ	_	10 בָּ֖א	mark	(that) he
10	בָּ֖א	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	8 עֻמַּ֥ת	acl:relcl	came
11	כֵּ֣ן	כֵּן	ADV	_	12 יֵלֵ֑ךְ	advmod	so
12	יֵלֵ֑ךְ	הלך	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	4 רָעָ֣ה	parataxis	he will go
13	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 מַה־	cc	and
14	מַה־	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	4 רָעָ֣ה	conj	what?
15	יִּתְר֣וֹן	יִתְרוֹן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 מַה־	nsubj	advantage
16	ל	לְ	ADP	_	17 ֔וֹ	case	[belongs] to
17	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 מַה־	obl	him
18	שֶֽׁ	שֶׁ	SCONJ	_	19 יַּעֲמֹ֖ל	mark	(cmp) he
19	יַּעֲמֹ֖ל	עָמַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	17 ֔וֹ	acl:relcl	will toil
20	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	22 רֽוּחַ	case	for
21	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 רֽוּחַ	det	the
22	רֽוּחַ	רוּחַ	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 יַּעֲמֹ֖ל	obl	wind
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	22 רֽוּחַ	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: speech with no frame
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)
חוֹלָה severe	participle active · qal	רָעָה [is] an evil
בָּא came	qatal · qal
יֵלֵךְ he will go	yiqtol · qal
יַּעֲמֹל will toil	yiqtol · qal

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

וְאוּף דָּא בִשָׁתָא מַרְעִיתָא וְלֵית לַהּ אָסוּ דְּכָל קֳבֵיל דְאָתָא לְעַלְמָא הָדֵין חַסִּיר מִן זְכוּתָא כְּדֵין יֵיזֵיל לְעָלְמָא הַהוּא ומַה מוֹתַר הֲוָה לֵיהּ דִי טָרַח לְקַבָּלַת רוּחֵיהּ:

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 this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?

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:97.

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