Ecclesiastes 9:8 קֹהֶלֶת

Who acts: you, garments, head · What happens: let, be, lack · To what, where: oil

This is Ecclesiastes 9:8 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 — you, garments, head — and what happens in the verse to oil, 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.

בְּכָל־עֵ֕ת יִהְי֥וּ בְגָדֶ֖יךָ לְבָנִ֑ים וְשֶׁ֖מֶן עַל־רֹאשְׁךָ֥ אַל־יֶחְסָֽר׃

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no oil.

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	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	2 כָל־	case	at
2	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 לְבָנִ֑ים	obl	every
3	עֵ֕ת	עֵת	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 כָל־	compound:smixut	time
4	יִהְי֥וּ	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	7 לְבָנִ֑ים	cop	let them be
5	בְגָדֶ֖י	בֶּגֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	7 לְבָנִ֑ים	nsubj	clothes
6	ךָ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 בְגָדֶ֖י	nmod:poss	your
7	לְבָנִ֑ים	לָבָן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	root	root	white
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 יֶחְסָֽר	cc	and
9	שֶׁ֖מֶן	שֶׁמֶן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 יֶחְסָֽר	nsubj	oil
10	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	11 רֹאשׁ	case	on
11	רֹאשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 יֶחְסָֽר	obl	head
12	ְךָ֥	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 רֹאשׁ	nmod:poss	your
13	אַל־	אַל	ADV	_	14 יֶחְסָֽר	advmod	not
14	יֶחְסָֽר	חָסֵר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	7 לְבָנִ֑ים	conj	let it be lacking
15	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	14 יֶחְסָֽר	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
יִהְיוּ let them be	yiqtol · qal	בְגָדֶי clothes
not יֶחְסָֽר let it be lacking	jussive · qal	שֶׁמֶן oil

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

בְּכָל עִדָּן יֶהֶויָין כְּסוּתָךְ חִיוָרִין מִן כָּל סוֹאֲבוֹת חוֹבָתָא וּשְׁמָא טָבָא דִּמְתִיל לִמְשַׁח רְבוּתָא קְנֵי בְּגִין דִי יִמְטוּן בִּרְכָן עַל רֵישָׁךְ וְטִיבוּתָךְ אַל יֶחֱסַר:

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.

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no oil.

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:167.

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