Ecclesiastes 8:15 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: I, man, this, God · What happens: commend, have, eat, drink, be, accompany · To what, where: mirth, better thing, sun, man, labour, days

This is Ecclesiastes 8:15 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 — I, man, this, God — and what happens in the verse to mirth, better thing, sun, man, labour, days, 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.

וְשִׁבַּ֤חְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ אֶת־הַשִּׂמְחָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֵֽין־ט֤וֹב לָֽאָדָם֙ תַּ֣חַת הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כִּ֛י אִם־לֶאֱכ֥וֹל וְלִשְׁתּ֖וֹת וְלִשְׂמ֑וֹחַ וְה֞וּא יִלְוֶ֣נּוּ בַעֲמָל֗וֹ יְמֵ֥י חַיָּ֛יו אֲשֶׁר־נָֽתַן־ל֥וֹ הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

So I commended mirth, that a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, and that this should accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given 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

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

וְשַׁבָּחִית אֲנָא יָת חֶדְוַת אוֹרָיְתָא אֲרוּם לֵית טַב לֶאֱנָשׁ בְּעַלְמָא הָדֵין תְּחוֹת שִׁמְשָׁא אֲרוּם אֱלָהֵין לְמֵיכַל וּלְמִשְׁתֵּי וּלְמֶחֱדֵּי בְּטוֹרְחֵיהּ וּבְחוּלְקֵיהּ דְאִתְיְהִיב לֵיהּ מִן שְׁמַיָּא וְלָא יוֹשִׁיט יְדֵיהּ בַחֲטוּפִין וְאֲנִיסָא וְהוּא יַלְוִינֵיה לִשְׁלָם לְעַלְמָא הַהוּא וִיקַבֵּיל אֲגַר שְׁלִים עַל טוֹרְחֵיהּ דִי טָרַח בִּשְׁלָמוּתָא כָּל יוֹמֵי חַיּוֹהִי דִּיהַב לֵיהּ יְיָ 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. So I commended mirth, that a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, and that this should accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

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