--- title: Ecclesiastes 12:4 — And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the gri… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; Who acts: sound, one. 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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 — sound, one — and what happens in the verse to doors, street, voice, daughters, 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. וְסֻגְּר֤וּ דְלָתַ֙יִם֙ בַּשּׁ֔וּק בִּשְׁפַ֖ל ק֣וֹל הַֽטַּחֲנָ֑ה וְיָקוּם֙ לְק֣וֹל הַצִּפּ֔וֹר וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ כָּל־בְּנ֥וֹת הַשִּֽׁיר׃ [And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.222/) ## 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:211 # text = וְסֻגְּר֤וּ דְלָתַ֙יִם֙ בַּשּׁ֔וּק בִּשְׁפַ֖ל ק֣וֹל הַֽטַּחֲנָ֑ה וְיָקוּם֙ לְק֣וֹל הַצִּפּ֔וֹר וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ כָּל־בְּנ֥וֹת הַשִּֽׁיר׃ # verse = ECC.12.4 1-2 וְסֻגְּר֤וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:4!1|MId=o210120040011|Strong=2050b 2 סֻגְּר֤וּ סָגַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PUAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.will.be.shut.up|Ref=ECC_12:4!1|MId=o210120040012|Strong=5462|Frame=A1:210120040021;|Type=weqatal 3 דְלָתַ֙יִם֙ דֶּלֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Dual 2 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].doors|Ref=ECC_12:4!2|MId=o210120040021|Strong=1817 4-6 בַּשּׁ֔וּק _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=ECC_12:4!3|MId=o210120040031|Strong=0871a 5 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_12:4!3|MId=o210120040031ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 שּׁ֔וּק שׁוּק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=street|Ref=ECC_12:4!3|MId=o210120040032|Strong=7784 7-8 בִּשְׁפַ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=when|Ref=ECC_12:4!4|MId=o210120040041|Strong=0871a 8 שְׁפַ֖ל שָׁפָל VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 2 advcl _ Gloss=becomes.low|Ref=ECC_12:4!4|MId=o210120040042|Strong=8213|Frame=A0:210120040051;|Type=infinitive_construct 9 ק֣וֹל קוֹל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Gloss=the.sound|Ref=ECC_12:4!5|MId=o210120040051|Strong=6963 10-11 הַֽטַּחֲנָ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=ECC_12:4!6|MId=o210120040061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 טַּחֲנָ֑ה טַחֲנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.grinding.mill|Ref=ECC_12:4!6|MId=o210120040062|Strong=2913 12-13 וְיָקוּם֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:4!7|MId=o210120040071|Strong=2050b 13 יָקוּם֙ קוּם VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=someone.will.arise|Ref=ECC_12:4!7|MId=o210120040072|Strong=6965|Frame=A0:;|Type=yiqtol 14-15 לְק֣וֹל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_12:4!8|MId=o210120040081|Strong=3807a 15 ק֣וֹל קוֹל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=the.sound|Ref=ECC_12:4!8|MId=o210120040082|Strong=6963 16-17 הַצִּפּ֔וֹר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 17 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=ECC_12:4!9|MId=o210120040091|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 17 צִּפּ֔וֹר צִפּוֹר NOUN _ Number=Sing 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=bird|Ref=ECC_12:4!9|MId=o210120040092|Strong=6833 18-19 וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_12:4!10|MId=o210120040101|Strong=2050b 19 יִשַּׁ֖חוּ שָׁחַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.will.be.reduced|Ref=ECC_12:4!10|MId=o210120040102|Strong=7817|Frame=A0:210120040121;|Type=yiqtol 20 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Gloss=all|Ref=ECC_12:4!11|MId=o210120040111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 21 בְּנ֥וֹת בַּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 20 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.daughters|Ref=ECC_12:4!12|MId=o210120040121|Strong=1323 22-23 הַשִּֽׁיר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 23 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=ECC_12:4!13|MId=o210120040131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 23 שִּֽׁיר שִׁיר NOUN _ Number=Sing 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=song|Ref=ECC_12:4!13|MId=o210120040132|Strong=7892 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=ECC_12:4!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | סֻגְּרוּ *they will be shut up* | weqatal · pual | | דְלָתַיִם *\[the\] doors* | | | | שְׁפַל *becomes low* | infinitive construct · qal | קוֹל *the sound* | | | | | יָקוּם *someone will arise* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | יִשַּׁחוּ *they will be reduced* | yiqtol · niphal | בְּנוֹת *the daughters* | | | | 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} וִיהוֹן רִיגְלָךְ כְּבִילָן מִלְּמִפַּק בְּשׁוּקָא וְיַעֲדִי מִנָּךְ רְעוּת מֵיכְלָא וּתְהֵי מִתְּעַר מִשֵּׁינָתָךְ עַל עֵיסַק קַל עוֹפָא כְּאִלּוּ עַל גַּנָּבַיָּא דְּאָזְלִין בְּלֵילְיָא וְיִתְרָפְסוּן סִפְוָתָךְ מִלְּמֵימַר שִׁירָתָא: 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. [And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.222/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:ECC:211`. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.3/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.12.5/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/12/)