--- title: Ecclesiastes 4:14 — For out of prison he came forth to be king; although in his kingdom… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: For out of prison he came forth to be king; although in his kingdom he was born poor. Who acts: child. Ecclesiastes 4:14 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.4.14/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/4/) / 4:14 # Ecclesiastes 4:14 קֹהֶלֶת **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** come, be, bear · **To what, where:** king, child, kingdom This is Ecclesiastes 4:14 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 — child — and what happens in the verse to king, child, kingdom, 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. כִּֽי־מִבֵּ֥ית הָסוּרִ֖ים יָצָ֣א לִמְלֹ֑ךְ כִּ֛י גַּ֥ם בְּמַלְכוּת֖וֹ נוֹלַ֥ד רָֽשׁ׃ [For out of prison he came forth to be king; although in his kingdom he was born poor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.87/) ## 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:79 # text = כִּֽי־מִבֵּ֥ית הָסוּרִ֖ים יָצָ֣א לִמְלֹ֑ךְ כִּ֛י גַּ֥ם בְּמַלְכוּת֖וֹ נוֹלַ֥ד רָֽשׁ׃ # verse = ECC.4.14 1 כִּֽי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 6 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ECC_4:14!1|MId=o210040140011|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 2-3 מִבֵּ֥ית _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=ECC_4:14!2|MId=o210040140021|Strong=4480 3 בֵּ֥ית בַּיִת NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 obl _ Gloss=the.house|Ref=ECC_4:14!2|MId=o210040140022|Strong=1004 4-5 הָסוּרִ֖ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=ECC_4:14!3|MId=o210040140031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 סוּרִ֖ים אָסַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.prisoners|Ref=ECC_4:14!3|MId=o210040140032|Strong=0631|Type=participle_passive 6 יָצָ֣א יָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.came.out|Ref=ECC_4:14!4|MId=o210040140041|Strong=3318|Frame=A0:210040130052;|Type=qatal 7-8 לִמְלֹ֑ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_4:14!5|MId=o210040140051|Strong=3807a 8 מְלֹ֑ךְ מָלַךְ VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 6 advcl _ Gloss=become.king|Ref=ECC_4:14!5|MId=o210040140052|Strong=4427|Frame=A0:210040130052;|Type=infinitive_construct 9 כִּ֛י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 14 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ECC_4:14!6|MId=o210040140061|Strong=3588 10 גַּ֥ם גַּם ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=ECC_4:14!7|MId=o210040140071|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 11-13 בְּמַלְכוּת֖וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=ECC_4:14!8|MId=o210040140081|Strong=0871a 12 מַלְכוּת מַלְכוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 obl _ Gloss=his.own|Ref=ECC_4:14!8|MId=o210040140082|Strong=4438 13 ֖וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=kingdom|Ref=ECC_4:14!8|MId=o210040140083|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 14 נוֹלַ֥ד יָלַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 6 advcl _ Gloss=he.had.been.born|Ref=ECC_4:14!9|MId=o210040140091|Strong=3205|Frame=A1:210040130052;|Type=qatal 15 רָֽשׁ רוּשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 14 obl:npmod _ Gloss=poor|Ref=ECC_4:14!10|MId=o210040140101|Strong=7326|Frame=A0:210040130052;|Type=participle_active|SpaceAfter=No 16 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 15 punct _ Ref=ECC_4:14!10 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָצָא *he came out* | qatal · qal | | | | | | מְלֹךְ *become king* | infinitive construct · qal | | | | | | נוֹלַד *he had been born* | qatal · niphal | | | | | | רָֽשׁ *poor* | participle active · qal | | | | | 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} אֲרוּם מִן גְנִיסַת פָּלְחֵי טָעֲוָתָא נְפַק אַבְרָהָם וּמְלַךְ עַל אַרְעָא דִכְנַעֲנָאֵי אֲרוּם אַף בְּיוֹמֵי מַלְכוּתֵיהּ דְּאַבְרָהָם אִתְעֲבִיד נִמְרוֹד מִסְכֵּינָא בְּעָלְמָא: 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. [For out of prison he came forth to be king; although in his kingdom he was born poor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.87/) **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:79`. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 4:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.13/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 4:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.15/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/4/)