--- title: Ecclesiastes 10:6 — Folly is set on great heights, and the rich sit in low place. · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Folly is set on great heights, and the rich sit in low place. Who acts: rich. Ecclesiastes 10:6 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.10.6/) [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/) / 10:6 # Ecclesiastes 10:6 קֹהֶלֶת **Who acts:** rich · **What happens:** set, sit · **To what, where:** Folly, great heights, low place This is Ecclesiastes 10:6 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 — rich — and what happens in the verse to Folly, great heights, low place, 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. נִתַּ֣ן הַסֶּ֔כֶל בַּמְּרוֹמִ֖ים רַבִּ֑ים וַעֲשִׁירִ֖ים בַּשֵּׁ֥פֶל יֵשֵֽׁבוּ׃ [Folly is set on great heights, and the rich sit in low place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.193/) ## 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:183 # text = נִתַּ֣ן הַסֶּ֔כֶל בַּמְּרוֹמִ֖ים רַבִּ֑ים וַעֲשִׁירִ֖ים בַּשֵּׁ֥פֶל יֵשֵֽׁבוּ׃ # verse = ECC.10.6 1 נִתַּ֣ן נָתַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.is.put|Ref=ECC_10:6!1|MId=o210100060011|Strong=5414|Frame=A1:210100060022;|Type=qatal 2-3 הַסֶּ֔כֶל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 3 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=ECC_10:6!2|MId=o210100060021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 3 סֶּ֔כֶל סֶכֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=folly|Ref=ECC_10:6!2|MId=o210100060022|Strong=5529 4-6 בַּמְּרוֹמִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=in.(the)|Ref=ECC_10:6!3|MId=o210100060031|Strong=0871a 5 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=high|Ref=ECC_10:6!3|MId=o210100060031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 מְּרוֹמִ֖ים מָרוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 obl _ Gloss=places|Ref=ECC_10:6!3|MId=o210100060032|Strong=4791 7 רַבִּ֑ים רַב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 amod _ Gloss=many|Ref=ECC_10:6!4|MId=o210100060041|Strong=7227|Type=adjective 8-9 וַעֲשִׁירִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_10:6!5|MId=o210100060051|Strong=2050b 9 עֲשִׁירִ֖ים עָשִׁיר ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Gloss=rich.[people]|Ref=ECC_10:6!5|MId=o210100060052|Strong=6223|Type=adjective 10-12 בַּשֵּׁ֥פֶל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=ECC_10:6!6|MId=o210100060061|Strong=0871a 11 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=the.low|Ref=ECC_10:6!6|MId=o210100060061ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 שֵּׁ֥פֶל שֵׁפֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=place|Ref=ECC_10:6!6|MId=o210100060062|Strong=8216 13 יֵשֵֽׁבוּ יָשַׁב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 1 conj _ Gloss=they.sit|Ref=ECC_10:6!7|MId=o210100060071|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:210100060052;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 14 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 13 punct _ Ref=ECC_10:6!7 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נִתַּן *it is put* | qatal · niphal | | סֶּכֶל *folly* | | | | יֵשֵֽׁבוּ *they sit* | yiqtol · qal | עֲשִׁירִים *rich \[people\]* | | | | 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} יְהַב יְיָ יָת מַלְכָּא רַשִּׁיעָא וְשָׁטְיָא לְמֶהֱוֵי בְּרִיא בְּמַזָּלֵיהּ וּמְשַׁמֵּישׁ בְּאַצְלָחוּתָא מִן שְׁמֵיה מְרוֹמָא וַחֲיָלוּתוֹהִי גֵּיוְתָנִין וְסַגִּיאִין וְעַמָּךְ בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל מִשְׁתַּעְבְּדִין תְּחוֹתוֹהִי בְּגָלוּתָא וּמִן סְגִיאוּת חוֹבֵיהוֹן עַתִּירֵי נִכְסִין מִתְמַסְכְּנִין וּבְמַכִּיכוּתָא יַתְבִין בֵּינֵי עַמְמַיָּא: 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. [Folly is set on great heights, and the rich sit in low place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.193/) **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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