Ecclesiastes 9:16 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: I, Wisdom, man · What happens: say, be, despise, not hear, word · To what, where: wisdom, words · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Ecclesiastes 9:16 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, man — and what happens in the verse to wisdom, words, 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.

וְאָמַ֣רְתִּי אָ֔נִי טוֹבָ֥ה חָכְמָ֖ה מִגְּבוּרָ֑ה וְחָכְמַ֤ת הַמִּסְכֵּן֙ בְּזוּיָ֔ה וּדְבָרָ֖יו אֵינָ֥ם נִשְׁמָעִֽים׃

Then said I: 'Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 אָמַ֣רְתִּי	cc	and
2	אָמַ֣רְתִּי	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I said
3	אָ֔נִי	אֲנִי	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 אָמַ֣רְתִּי	nsubj	I
4	טוֹבָ֥ה	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	2 אָמַ֣רְתִּי	ccomp	[is] good
5	חָכְמָ֖ה	חׇכְמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	4 טוֹבָ֥ה	nsubj	wisdom
6	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	7 גְּבוּרָ֑ה	case	more
7	גְּבוּרָ֑ה	גְּבוּרָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	4 טוֹבָ֥ה	obl	than strength
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 בְּזוּיָ֔ה	cc	and
9	חָכְמַ֤ת	חׇכְמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	12 בְּזוּיָ֔ה	nsubj	the wisdom
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 מִּסְכֵּן֙	det	of
11	מִּסְכֵּן֙	מִסְכֵּן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 חָכְמַ֤ת	compound:smixut	the poor [person]
12	בְּזוּיָ֔ה	בָּזָה	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	4 טוֹבָ֥ה	conj	[is] despised
13	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 נִשְׁמָעִֽים	cc	and
14	דְבָרָ֖י	דָּבָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	18 נִשְׁמָעִֽים	dislocated	words
15	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 דְבָרָ֖י	nmod:poss	his
16	אֵינ	אַיִן	ADV	_	18 נִשְׁמָעִֽים	advmod	not
17	ָ֥ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 נִשְׁמָעִֽים	nsubj	they
18	נִשְׁמָעִֽים	שָׁמַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Plur	4 טוֹבָ֥ה	conj	[are] heard
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	18 נִשְׁמָעִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: yes
the frame alone: decl · assert · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
אָמַרְתִּי I said	qatal · qal	אָנִי I
בְּזוּיָה [is] despised	participle passive · qal		חָכְמַת the wisdom
not נִשְׁמָעִֽים [are] heard	participle passive · niphal		ָם they

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

וַאֲמָרִית אֲנָא בְּמֵימְרִי טָבָא חָכְמַת צַדִּיקַיָא מִכֹּחַ גְּבוּרַת רַשִּׁיעַיָא דְּחוּכְמַת צַדִּיקַיָא וּזְכוּתֵיהּ מְשֵׁיזְבָא לֵיהּ וְלֶאֱנָשֵׁי דָּרֵיהּ וּתְקוֹף רַשִּׁיעָא דְּקָאִים בְּתוּקְפֵיה דְּלִבֵּיהּ בְּדִיל דְּלָא לְמֶהֱדַּר בִּתְיוּבְתָּא מְחַבְּלָא לֵיהּ בִּלְחוֹדוֹהִי וְחוּכְמַת צַדִּיקָא עַנְיָא מִזְדַּלְדְלָא בְעֵינֵי רַשִּׁיעֵי דָּרֵיהּ וּבְעִדָּן דְּיוֹכַח יָתְהוֹן עַל עוֹבָדֵיהוֹן בִּישַׁיָּא וּפִתְגָמֵיה אוֹכַחְתֵּיה לֵיתִנּוּן מִתְקַבְּלִין:

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.

Then said I: 'Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'

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:175.

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