--- title: Ecclesiastes 10:13 — The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness. Who acts: beginning, end, serpent. Ecclesiastes 10:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Ecclesiastes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/) / [chapter 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/10/) / 10:13 # Ecclesiastes 10:13 קֹהֶלֶת **Who acts:** beginning, end, serpent · **What happens:** be, begin, word, talk · **To what, where:** foolishness, grievous madness, words, mouth This is Ecclesiastes 10:13 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 — beginning, end, serpent — and what happens in the verse to foolishness, grievous madness, words, mouth, 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. תְּחִלַּ֥ת דִּבְרֵי־פִ֖יהוּ סִכְל֑וּת וְאַחֲרִ֣ית פִּ֔יהוּ הוֹלֵל֖וּת רָעָֽה׃ [The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.200/) ## The tree {#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. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:ECC:190 # text = תְּחִלַּ֥ת דִּבְרֵי־פִ֖יהוּ סִכְל֑וּת וְאַחֲרִ֣ית פִּ֔יהוּ הוֹלֵל֖וּת רָעָֽה׃ # verse = ECC.10.13 1 תְּחִלַּ֥ת תְּחִלָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Gloss=the.beginning|Ref=ECC_10:13!1|MId=o210100130011|Strong=8462 2 דִּבְרֵי־ דָּבָר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.words|Ref=ECC_10:13!2|MId=o210100130021|Strong=1697|SpaceAfter=No 3-4 פִ֖יהוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 פִ֖י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.mouth|Ref=ECC_10:13!3|MId=o210100130031|Strong=6310 4 הוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=ECC_10:13!3|MId=o210100130032|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 5 סִכְל֑וּת סִכְלוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is].folly|Ref=ECC_10:13!4|MId=o210100130041|Strong=5531 6-7 וְאַחֲרִ֣ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_10:13!5|MId=o210100130051|Strong=2050b 7 אַחֲרִ֣ית אַחֲרִית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=the.end|Ref=ECC_10:13!5|MId=o210100130052|Strong=0319 8-9 פִּ֔יהוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 פִּ֔י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.mouth|Ref=ECC_10:13!6|MId=o210100130061|Strong=6310 9 הוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=ECC_10:13!6|MId=o210100130062|Strong=1930a|Type=pronominal 10 הוֹלֵל֖וּת הוֹלֵלוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 conj _ Gloss=[is].madness|Ref=ECC_10:13!7|MId=o210100130071|Strong=1948 11 רָעָֽה רָעָה ADJ _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 amod _ Gloss=evil|Ref=ECC_10:13!8|MId=o210100130081|Strong=7451|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 12 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=ECC_10:13!8 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse. ## The Targum {#onkelos} שֵׁירוּי מִלֵּי פוּמֵּיהּ שְׁטוּתָא וְסוּף מֵימַר פּוּמֵּיהּ חוּלְחַלְתָּא בִּישָׁא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. [The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is grievous madness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.200/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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). 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