Ecclesiastes 8:17 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: I, man, wise man, God · What happens: behold, not find out, do, labour, seek out, not find · To what, where: work, sun

This is Ecclesiastes 8:17 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, wise man, God — and what happens in the verse to work, 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.

וְרָאִיתִי֮ אֶת־כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה הָאֱלֹהִים֒ כִּי֩ לֹ֨א יוּכַ֜ל הָאָדָ֗ם לִמְצוֹא֙ אֶת־הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נַעֲשָׂ֣ה תַֽחַת־הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ בְּ֠שֶׁל אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַעֲמֹ֧ל הָאָדָ֛ם לְבַקֵּ֖שׁ וְלֹ֣א יִמְצָ֑א וְגַ֨ם אִם־יֹאמַ֤ר הֶֽחָכָם֙ לָדַ֔עַת לֹ֥א יוּכַ֖ל לִמְצֹֽא׃

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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

promise

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

וַחֲזֵית אֲנָא יָת כָּל עוֹבַד גְּבוּרְתָּא דַּיָי אֲרוּם דְּחִילָא הוּא וְלֵית לֵיהּ רְשׁוּ לֶאֱנָשׁ לְאַשְׁכָּחָא יָת עוֹבַד גְּבוּרְתָּא דַּיָי דְּאִתְעֲבֵיד בְּעַלְמָא הָדֵין תְּחוֹת שִׁמְשָׁא כַּד יִטְרַח אֱנָשׁ לְמִתְבַּע מַה דַּעֲתִיד לְמֶהֱוֵי וְלָא יַשְׁכַּח וְאַף אִם יֵימַר גְּבַר חַכִּים בְּמֵימְרֵיהּ לְמִנְדַּע מַה דַּעֲתִיד לְמֶהֱוֵי בְּסוֹף יוֹמַיָּא לֵית לֵיהּ רְשׁוּ לְמִשְׁכַּח:

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. then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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