Ecclesiastes 9:5 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: living, dead · What happens: know, die, not know, forget · To what, where: thing, memory · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Ecclesiastes 9:5 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 — living, dead — and what happens in the verse to thing, memory, 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.

כִּ֧י הַֽחַיִּ֛ים יוֹדְעִ֖ים שֶׁיָּמֻ֑תוּ וְהַמֵּתִ֞ים אֵינָ֧ם יוֹדְעִ֣ים מְא֗וּמָה וְאֵֽין־ע֤וֹד לָהֶם֙ שָׂכָ֔ר כִּ֥י נִשְׁכַּ֖ח זִכְרָֽם׃

For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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	כִּ֧י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	4 יוֹדְעִ֖ים	mark	(dm)
2	הַֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	3 חַיִּ֛ים	det	the
3	חַיִּ֛ים	חַי	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 יוֹדְעִ֖ים	nsubj	living
4	יוֹדְעִ֖ים	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	root	root	[are] knowing
5	שֶׁ	שֶׁ	SCONJ	_	6 יָּמֻ֑תוּ	mark	(cmp) they
6	יָּמֻ֑תוּ	מוּת	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	4 יוֹדְעִ֖ים	acl:relcl	will die
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 יוֹדְעִ֣ים	cc	and
8	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	9 מֵּתִ֞ים	det	the dead
9	מֵּתִ֞ים	מוּת	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	12 יוֹדְעִ֣ים	dislocated	[people]
10	אֵינ	אַיִן	ADV	_	12 יוֹדְעִ֣ים	advmod	not
11	ָ֧ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 יוֹדְעִ֣ים	nsubj	they
12	יוֹדְעִ֣ים	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	4 יוֹדְעִ֖ים	conj	[are] knowing
13	מְא֗וּמָה	מְאוּמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	12 יוֹדְעִ֣ים	obj	anything
14	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 אֵֽין־	cc	and
15	אֵֽין־	אַיִן	ADV	_	4 יוֹדְעִ֖ים	conj	there [is] not
16	ע֤וֹד	עוֹד	ADV	_	15 אֵֽין־	advmod	still
17	ל	לְ	ADP	_	18 ָהֶם֙	case	for
18	ָהֶם֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 אֵֽין־	obl	them
19	שָׂכָ֔ר	שָׂכָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 אֵֽין־	nsubj	a reward
20	כִּ֥י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	21 נִשְׁכַּ֖ח	mark	(dm)
21	נִשְׁכַּ֖ח	שָׁכַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	4 יוֹדְעִ֖ים	advcl	it is forgotten
22	זִכְר	זֵכֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 נִשְׁכַּ֖ח	nsubj	memorial
23	ָֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 זִכְר	nmod:poss	their
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 ָֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
not יוֹדְעִים [are] knowing	participle active · qal	חַיִּים living	יָּמֻתוּ will die
יָּמֻתוּ will die	yiqtol · qal	חַיִּים living
not יוֹדְעִים [are] knowing	participle active · qal	ָם they	מְאוּמָה anything
נִשְׁכַּח it is forgotten	qatal · niphal		זִכְר memorial

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 צַדִּיקַיָּא יָדְעִין דְּאִין יְחוֹבוּן עֲתִידִין לְמֶהֱוֵיהוֹן חֲשִׁיבִין כְּמֵתַיָּא לְעַלְמָא דְּאָתֵי בְּגִין כֵּן נַטְרִין אוֹרְחֵיהוֹן וְלָא חַיָיבִין וְאִין יְחוֹבוּן תָּיְבִין בִּתְיוּבְתָּא וְחַיָּבַיָּא לֵיתֵיהוֹן יָדְעִין מִדַעַם טַב עַל דְּלָא אוֹטִיבוּ עוֹבָדֵיהוֹן בְּחַיֵּהוֹן וְלֵיתֵיהוֹן יָדְעִין מִדַעַם טַב לְעָלְמָא דְּאָתֵי וְלֵית לְהוֹן אֲגַר טַב בָּתַר מוֹתֵיהוֹן אֲרוּם אִתְנְשֵׁי דָכְרָנֵיהוֹן מִבְּנֵי צַדִּיקַיָּא:

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 the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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:164.

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