--- title: Ecclesiastes 5:15 — And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind? Who acts: this, evil. Ecclesiastes 5:15 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.5.15/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/5/) / 5:15 # Ecclesiastes 5:15 קֹהֶלֶת **Who acts:** this, evil · **What happens:** be, come, go, have, labour · **To what, where:** grievous evil, points, profit This is Ecclesiastes 5:15 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 — this, evil — and what happens in the verse to grievous evil, points, profit, 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־זֹה֙ רָעָ֣ה חוֹלָ֔ה כָּל־עֻמַּ֥ת שֶׁבָּ֖א כֵּ֣ן יֵלֵ֑ךְ וּמַה־יִּתְר֣וֹן ל֔וֹ שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל לָרֽוּחַ׃ [And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.106/) ## 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:97 # text = וְגַם־זֹה֙ רָעָ֣ה חוֹלָ֔ה כָּל־עֻמַּ֥ת שֶׁבָּ֖א כֵּ֣ן יֵלֵ֑ךְ וּמַה־יִּתְר֣וֹן ל֔וֹ שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל לָרֽוּחַ׃ # verse = ECC.5.15 1-2 וְגַם־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_5:15!1|MId=o210050150011|Strong=2050b 2 גַם־ גַּם ADV _ _ 4 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=ECC_5:15!1|MId=o210050150012|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 3 זֹה֙ זֹה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ Gloss=this|Ref=ECC_5:15!2|MId=o210050150021|Strong=2090|Type=demonstrative 4 רָעָ֣ה רָעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is].an.evil|Ref=ECC_5:15!3|MId=o210050150031|Strong=7451b 5 חוֹלָ֔ה חָלָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Gloss=severe|Ref=ECC_5:15!4|MId=o210050150041|Strong=2470|Frame=A0:210050150031;|Type=participle_active 6-7 כָּל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 כָּ כֹּל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=ECC_5:15!5|MId=o210050150051|Strong=3509a 7 ל־ כֹּל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=|Ref=ECC_5:15!5|MId=o210050150052|Strong=3807a 8 עֻמַּ֥ת עֻמָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=exactly.as|Ref=ECC_5:15!6|MId=o210050150061|Strong=5980 9-10 שֶׁבָּ֖א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 שֶׁ שֶׁ SCONJ _ _ 10 mark _ Gloss=(that).he|Ref=ECC_5:15!7|MId=o210050150071|Strong=7578a|Type=relative 10 בָּ֖א בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 8 acl:relcl _ Gloss=came|Ref=ECC_5:15!7|MId=o210050150072|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:210030220072;|Type=qatal 11 כֵּ֣ן כֵּן ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=so|Ref=ECC_5:15!8|MId=o210050150081|Strong=3651|Type=demonstrative 12 יֵלֵ֑ךְ הלך VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 4 parataxis _ Gloss=he.will.go|Ref=ECC_5:15!9|MId=o210050150091|Strong=1980|Frame=A0:210030220072;|Type=yiqtol 13-14 וּמַה־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_5:15!10|MId=o210050150101|Strong=2050b 14 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 4 conj _ Gloss=what?|Ref=ECC_5:15!10|MId=o210050150102|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative 15 יִּתְר֣וֹן יִתְרוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Gloss=advantage|Ref=ECC_5:15!11|MId=o210050150111|Strong=3504 16-17 ל֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 ל לְ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=[belongs].to|Ref=ECC_5:15!12|MId=o210050150121|Strong=3807a 17 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=ECC_5:15!12|MId=o210050150122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 18-19 שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 שֶֽׁ שֶׁ SCONJ _ _ 19 mark _ Gloss=(cmp).he|Ref=ECC_5:15!13|MId=o210050150131|Strong=7578a|Type=relative 19 יַּעֲמֹ֖ל עָמַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 17 acl:relcl _ Gloss=will.toil|Ref=ECC_5:15!13|MId=o210050150132|Strong=5998|Frame=A0:210030220072;|Type=yiqtol 20-22 לָרֽוּחַ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=ECC_5:15!14|MId=o210050150141|Strong=3807a 21 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 22 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_5:15!14|MId=o210050150141ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 22 רֽוּחַ רוּחַ NOUN _ Number=Sing 19 obl _ Gloss=wind|Ref=ECC_5:15!14|MId=o210050150142|Strong=7307 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=ECC_5:15!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: speech with no frame - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | חוֹלָה *severe* | participle active · qal | רָעָה *\[is\] an evil* | | | | | בָּא *came* | qatal · qal | | | | | | יֵלֵךְ *he will go* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | יַּעֲמֹל *will toil* | yiqtol · 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} וְאוּף דָּא בִשָׁתָא מַרְעִיתָא וְלֵית לַהּ אָסוּ דְּכָל קֳבֵיל דְאָתָא לְעַלְמָא הָדֵין חַסִּיר מִן זְכוּתָא כְּדֵין יֵיזֵיל לְעָלְמָא הַהוּא ומַה מוֹתַר הֲוָה לֵיהּ דִי טָרַח לְקַבָּלַת רוּחֵיהּ: 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 this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.106/) **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:97`. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 5:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.14/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 5:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.16/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/5/)