Ecclesiastes 9:4 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: hope, living dog · What happens: join, be · To what, where: man

This is Ecclesiastes 9:4 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 — hope, living dog — and what happens in the verse to man, 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.

כִּי־מִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְחֻבַּ֔ר אֶ֥ל כָּל־הַחַיִּ֖ים יֵ֣שׁ בִּטָּח֑וֹן כִּֽי־לְכֶ֤לֶב חַי֙ ה֣וּא ט֔וֹב מִן־הָאַרְיֵ֖ה הַמֵּֽת׃

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	9 יֵ֣שׁ	mark	(dm)
2	מִי֙	מִי	PRON	PronType=Int	9 יֵ֣שׁ	dislocated	who?
3	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	4 יְחֻבַּ֔ר	mark	[is the one] who
4	יְחֻבַּ֔ר	חָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PUAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 מִי֙	acl:relcl	he is united
5	אֶ֥ל	אֶל	ADP	_	6 כָּל־	case	to
6	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 יְחֻבַּ֔ר	obl	all
7	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	8 חַיִּ֖ים	det	the
8	חַיִּ֖ים	חַי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	6 כָּל־	compound:smixut	living
9	יֵ֣שׁ	יֵשׁ	ADV	_	root	root	there [is]
10	בִּטָּח֑וֹן	בִּטָּחוֹן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 יֵ֣שׁ	nsubj	hope
11	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	16 ט֔וֹב	mark	(dm)
12	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	13 כֶ֤לֶב	case	to
13	כֶ֤לֶב	כֶּלֶב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 ט֔וֹב	dislocated	a dog
14	חַי֙	חַי	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 כֶ֤לֶב	amod	living
15	ה֣וּא	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ט֔וֹב	nsubj	it
16	ט֔וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 יֵ֣שׁ	advcl	[is] good
17	מִן־	מִן	ADP	_	19 אַרְיֵ֖ה	case	more than
18	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	19 אַרְיֵ֖ה	det	the
19	אַרְיֵ֖ה	אַרְיֵה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 ט֔וֹב	obl	lion
20	הַ	הַ	SCONJ	_	21 מֵּֽת	mark	(the)
21	מֵּֽת	מוּת	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	19 אַרְיֵ֖ה	acl:relcl	dead
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 מֵּֽת	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
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)
יְחֻבַּר he is united	yiqtol · pual		מִי who?
מֵּֽת dead	participle active · qal	אַרְיֵה lion

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 מַן גַבְרָא דִי אִתְחַבָּר לְכָל פִּתְגָמֵי אוֹרַיְתָא וּלְמִקְנֵי חַיֵי עַלְמָא דְּאָתֵי אִית לֵיהּ סְבַר אֲרוּם כַּלְבָּא חַיָא הוּא טָב מִן אַרְיָא דִי הוּא מִית:

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.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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:163.

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