--- title: Ecclesiastes 10:3 — Yea also, when a fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Yea also, when a fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool. Who acts: fool, understanding. Ecclesiastes 10:3 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.10.3/) [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/) / 10:3 # Ecclesiastes 10:3 קֹהֶלֶת **Who acts:** fool, understanding · **What happens:** walk, fail, say, be, understand · **To what, where:** fool, one · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Ecclesiastes 10:3 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 — fool, understanding — and what happens in the verse to fool, one, 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. וְגַם־בַּדֶּ֛רֶךְ כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥להֹלֵ֖ךְ לִבּ֣וֹ חָסֵ֑ר וְאָמַ֥ר לַכֹּ֖ל סָכָ֥ל הֽוּא׃ [Yea also, when a fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.190/) ## 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:180 # text = וְגַם־בַּדֶּ֛רֶךְ כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥להֹלֵ֖ךְ לִבּ֣וֹ חָסֵ֑ר וְאָמַ֥ר לַכֹּ֖ל סָכָ֥ל הֽוּא׃ # verse = ECC.10.3 1-2 וְגַם־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_10:3!1|MId=o210100030011|Strong=2050b 2 גַם־ גַּם ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=ECC_10:3!1|MId=o210100030012|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 3-5 בַּדֶּ֛רֶךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=ECC_10:3!2|MId=o210100030021|Strong=0871a 4 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_10:3!2|MId=o210100030021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 דֶּ֛רֶךְ דֶּרֶךְ NOUN _ Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=way|Ref=ECC_10:3!2|MId=o210100030022|Strong=1870 6-9 כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥להֹלֵ֖ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 12 obl _ Gloss=when|Ref=ECC_10:3!4|MId=o210100030041|Strong=3509a 7 שֶׁ שֶׁ SCONJ _ _ 9 mark _ Gloss=a|Ref=ECC_10:3!4|MId=o210100030042|Strong=7578a|Type=relative 8 סָּכָ֥ל סָכָל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Gloss=fool|Ref=ECC_10:3!4|MId=o210100030043|Strong=5530 9 הֹלֵ֖ךְ הָלַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 6 acl:relcl _ Gloss=[is].walking|Ref=ECC_10:3!5|MId=o210100030051|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:210100030043;|Type=participle_active 10-11 לִבּ֣וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 לִבּ לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Gloss=heart|Ref=ECC_10:3!6|MId=o210100030061|Strong=3820 11 ֣וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=ECC_10:3!6|MId=o210100030062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 12 חָסֵ֑ר חָסֵר ADJ _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.lacks|Ref=ECC_10:3!7|MId=o210100030071|Strong=2638|Type=qatal 13-14 וְאָמַ֥ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_10:3!8|MId=o210100030081|Strong=2050b 14 אָמַ֥ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 12 conj _ Gloss=he.says|Ref=ECC_10:3!8|MId=o210100030082|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:210100030043;|Type=weqatal 15-17 לַכֹּ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_10:3!9|MId=o210100030091|Strong=3807a 16 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=ECC_10:3!9|MId=o210100030091ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 כֹּ֖ל כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=everyone|Ref=ECC_10:3!9|MId=o210100030092|Strong=3605 18 סָכָ֥ל סָכָל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ Gloss=[is].a.fool|Ref=ECC_10:3!10|MId=o210100030101|Strong=5530 19 הֽוּא הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=ECC_10:3!11|MId=o210100030111|Strong=1931|Type=personal|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=ECC_10:3!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הֹלֵךְ *\[is\] walking* | participle active · qal | סָּכָל *fool* | | | | | אָמַר *he says* | weqatal · qal | סָּכָל *fool* | | | | 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 {#onkelos} וְאַף בְּאוֹרְחָא סָרִיכָא בְּעִדָּן דְּשָׁטְיָא אָזִיל לִבֵּיהּ חַסִּיר מִן חוּכְמְתָא וְעָבַיד מִלִּין דְּלָא תָקְנִין לְאִתְעוֹבָדָא וְכוֹלָא אָמְרִין דְּשָׁטְיָא הוּא: 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. [Yea also, when a fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.190/) **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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