Ecclesiastes 7:23 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: I, wisdom · What happens: try, say, get, be · To what, where: this, wisdom · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Ecclesiastes 7:23 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, wisdom — and what happens in the verse to this, wisdom, 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.

כָּל־זֹ֖ה נִסִּ֣יתִי בַֽחָכְמָ֑ה אָמַ֣רְתִּי אֶחְכָּ֔מָה וְהִ֖יא רְחוֹקָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

All this have I tried by wisdom; I said: 'I will get wisdom'; but it was far from me.

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	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 נִסִּ֣יתִי	obj	all
2	זֹ֖ה	זֹה	DET	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 כָּל־	det	this
3	נִסִּ֣יתִי	נָסָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I have put to the test
4	בַֽ	בְּ	ADP	_	6 חָכְמָ֑ה	case	by
5	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 חָכְמָ֑ה	det	(the)
6	חָכְמָ֑ה	חׇכְמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 נִסִּ֣יתִי	obl	wisdom
7	אָמַ֣רְתִּי	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	3 נִסִּ֣יתִי	parataxis	I said
8	אֶחְכָּ֔מָה	חָכַם	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	7 אָמַ֣רְתִּי	ccomp	let me be wise
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 רְחוֹקָ֥ה	cc	and
10	הִ֖יא	הִיא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 רְחוֹקָ֥ה	nsubj	it
11	רְחוֹקָ֥ה	רָחֹוק	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	8 אֶחְכָּ֔מָה	conj	[was] far
12	מִמּ	מִן	ADP	_	13 ֶֽנִּי	case	from
13	ֶֽנִּי	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 רְחוֹקָ֥ה	obl	me
14	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	13 ֶֽנִּי	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · assert · none

verb	form · stem	what, whom (A1)
נִסִּיתִי I have put to the test	qatal · piel	זֹה this
אָמַרְתִּי I said	qatal · qal
אֶחְכָּמָה let me be wise	cohortative · 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

כָּל דִי [אֲמָרִית] בְּחָנִית בְּחוּכְמְתָא אֲמָרִית בְּמֵימְרִי אֶחְכּוֹם אַף כָּל חוּכְמַת אוֹרָיְתָא וְהִיא רְחָקַת מִנִּי:

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.

All this have I tried by wisdom; I said: 'I will get wisdom'; but it was far from me.

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:136.

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