Ecclesiastes 9:18 קֹהֶלֶת
Who acts: Wisdom, one sinner · What happens: be, destroy · To what, where: much good
This is Ecclesiastes 9:18 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 — Wisdom, one sinner — and what happens in the verse to much good, 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.
טוֹבָ֥ה חָכְמָ֖ה מִכְּלֵ֣י קְרָ֑ב וְחוֹטֶ֣א אֶחָ֔ד יְאַבֵּ֥ד טוֹבָ֥ה הַרְבֵּֽה׃
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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 | טוֹבָ֥ה | טוֹב | ADJ | Gender=Fem Number=Sing | root | root | [is] good |
| 2 | חָכְמָ֖ה | חׇכְמָה | NOUN | Gender=Fem Number=Sing | 1 טוֹבָ֥ה | nsubj | wisdom |
| 3 | מִ | מִן | ADP | _ | 4 כְּלֵ֣י | case | more |
| 4 | כְּלֵ֣י | כְּלִי | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Plur | 1 טוֹבָ֥ה | obl | than weapons |
| 5 | קְרָ֑ב | קְרָב | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 4 כְּלֵ֣י | compound:smixut | of war |
| 6 | וְ | וְ | CCONJ | _ | 9 יְאַבֵּ֥ד | cc | and |
| 7 | חוֹטֶ֣א | חָטָא | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing | 9 יְאַבֵּ֥ד | nsubj | a sinner |
| 8 | אֶחָ֔ד | אֶחָד | NUM | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 7 חוֹטֶ֣א | nummod | one |
| 9 | יְאַבֵּ֥ד | אָבַד | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3 | 1 טוֹבָ֥ה | conj | he will destroy |
| 10 | טוֹבָ֥ה | טוֹבָה | NOUN | Gender=Fem Number=Sing | 9 יְאַבֵּ֥ד | obj | good |
| 11 | הַרְבֵּֽה | רָבָה | ADV | HebBinyan=HIPHIL | 10 טוֹבָ֥ה | advmod | much |
| 12 | ׃ | ׃ | PUNCT | _ | 11 הַרְבֵּֽה | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- speech
- inside a quote begun earlier
- negation
- no
| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| יְאַבֵּד he will destroy | yiqtol · piel | חוֹטֶא a sinner | טוֹבָה good |
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
טָבָא חוּכְמַת חַכִּימַיָא בְּעִדָּן עָקְתָא יַתִּיר מִן מָנֵי קְרָבָא בְּעִדָּן אַגִיחוּת קְרָבָא וְגַבְרָא חַיָּבָא חַד דְּאִיתֵיהּ בְּדָרָא גָּרֵים לְהוֹבָדָא טַבְתָּא רַבְּתָא מִן עַלְמָא:
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.
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:177.
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