Ecclesiastes 5:4 קֹהֶלֶת
Who acts: thou · What happens: be, not vow, vow, not pay
This is Ecclesiastes 5:4 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 — thou — and what happens in the verse, 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.
ט֖וֹב אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־תִדֹּ֑ר מִשֶׁתִּדּ֖וֹרוְלֹ֥א תְשַׁלֵּֽם׃
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
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 | ט֖וֹב | טוֹב | ADJ | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | root | root | [is] good |
| 2 | אֲשֶׁ֣ר | אֲשֶׁר | SCONJ | _ | 4 תִדֹּ֑ר | mark | (cmp) |
| 3 | לֹֽא־ | לֹא | ADV | _ | 4 תִדֹּ֑ר | advmod | not |
| 4 | תִדֹּ֑ר | נָדַר | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2 | 1 ט֖וֹב | acl:relcl | you will vow |
| 5 | מִ | מִן | ADP | _ | 1 ט֖וֹב | obl | more |
| 6 | שֶׁ | שֶׁ | SCONJ | _ | 7 תִּדּ֖וֹר | mark | than (cmp) |
| 7 | תִּדּ֖וֹר | נָדַר | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2 | 5 מִ | acl:relcl | you will vow |
| 8 | וְ | וְ | CCONJ | _ | 10 תְשַׁלֵּֽם | cc | and |
| 9 | לֹ֥א | לֹא | ADV | _ | 10 תְשַׁלֵּֽם | advmod | not |
| 10 | תְשַׁלֵּֽם | שָׁלֵם | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=2 | 7 תִּדּ֖וֹר | conj | you will pay |
| 11 | ׃ | ׃ | PUNCT | _ | 10 תְשַׁלֵּֽם | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- speech
- inside a quote begun earlier
- negation
- yes
| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| not תִדֹּר you will vow | yiqtol · qal | ||||
| תִּדּוֹר you will vow | yiqtol · qal | ||||
| not תְשַׁלֵּֽם you will pay | yiqtol · piel |
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
טָב לָךְ דְּלָא תִנְדַּר מִן דִן תִנְדֵר וְלָא תְשַׁלֵּם:
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.
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:86.
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