Ecclesiastes 6:12 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: appetite · What happens: know, be, spend, tell · To what, where: life, vain life, man, sun · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Ecclesiastes 6:12 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 — appetite — and what happens in the verse to life, vain life, man, sun, 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.

כִּ֣י מִֽי־יוֹדֵעַ֩ מַה־טּ֨וֹב לָֽאָדָ֜ם בַּֽחַיִּ֗ים מִסְפַּ֛ר יְמֵי־חַיֵּ֥י הֶבְל֖וֹ וְיַעֲשֵׂ֣ם כַּצֵּ֑ל אֲשֶׁר֙ מִֽי־יַגִּ֣יד לָֽאָדָ֔ם מַה־יִּהְיֶ֥ה אַחֲרָ֖יו תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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

wh-question

act

ask

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

אֲרוּם מַן הוּא דִי יִנְדַע מַה יוֹטִיב לֶאֱנָשָׁא בְּעַלְמָא הָדֵין אֱלָהֵין לְמִעְסַק בְּאוֹרָיְתָא דִי אִנּוּן חַיֵי עַלְמָא וְכָל מִנְיַן יוֹמֵי חַיֵּי הֶבְלוֹ דִי יְחֵי בְּעִדָּן מוֹתֵיהּ אִנּוּן חֲשִׁיבִין בְּעֵינוֹי כִּטְלַלָא דְּמַן הוּא דִי יְחַוִי לֶאֱנָשָׁא מַה דְעָתִיד לְמֶהֱוֵי בְּאַפּוֹהִי [בָּתְרוֹהִי] בְּעַלְמָא הָדֵין תְּחוֹת שִׁמְשָׁא:

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. For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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