Ecclesiastes 9:12 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: man, race · What happens: not know, take, catch, snare, fall · To what, where: fishes, evil net, birds, snare, sons

This is Ecclesiastes 9:12 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 — man, race — and what happens in the verse to fishes, evil net, birds, snare, sons, 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.

כִּ֡י גַּם֩ לֹֽא־יֵדַ֨ע הָאָדָ֜ם אֶת־עִתּ֗וֹ כַּדָּגִים֙ שֶׁנֶּֽאֱחָזִים֙ בִּמְצוֹדָ֣ה רָעָ֔ה וְכַ֨צִּפֳּרִ֔ים הָאֲחֻז֖וֹת בַּפָּ֑ח כָּהֵ֗ם יֽוּקָשִׁים֙ בְּנֵ֣י הָֽאָדָ֔ם לְעֵ֣ת רָעָ֔ה כְּשֶׁתִּפּ֥וֹל עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם פִּתְאֹֽם׃

For man also knoweth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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

אֲרוּם אַף לָא אִשְׁתָּמוֹדַע לִגְבַר יָת זִמְנֵיהּ בֵּין טָב לְבִישׁ מִן מַה דַּעֲתִיד לְמֶהֱוֵי בְּעַלְמָא וּלְמֵיתֵי עֲלוֹי כְּנוּנֵי יַמָּא דְּמִתְאַחֲדִין בְּחַכָּה וּכְצִפָּרֵי שְׁמַיָּא דְּמִתְאַחֲדִין בְּתִקוּלָא כְּוָתְהוֹן מוּתְקְלִין בְּנֵי אֱנָשָׁא לִזְמַן בִּישָׁתָא דְּאִתְעַתְּדַת לְמֶהֱוֵי נָפְלָא עֲלַוֵיהוֹן רִגְעָא חֲדָא מִשְׁמַיָּא:

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 man also knoweth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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