--- title: Ecclesiastes 7:25 — I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness; Who acts: I. 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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 — I — and what happens in the verse to heart, wisdom, wickedness, folly, madness, 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. סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי אֲנִ֤י וְלִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת וְלָת֔וּר וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ חָכְמָ֖ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן וְלָדַ֙עַת֙ רֶ֣שַׁע כֶּ֔סֶל וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת הוֹלֵלֽוֹת׃ [I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.147/) ## 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:138 # text = סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי אֲנִ֤י וְלִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת וְלָת֔וּר וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ חָכְמָ֖ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן וְלָדַ֙עַת֙ רֶ֣שַׁע כֶּ֔סֶל וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת הוֹלֵלֽוֹת׃ # verse = ECC.7.25 1 סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי סָבַב VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I.turned|Ref=ECC_7:25!1|MId=o210070250011|Strong=5437|Frame=A0:210070250021;|Type=qatal 2 אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=ECC_7:25!2|MId=o210070250021|Strong=0589|Type=personal 3-5 וְלִבִּי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=(and)|Ref=ECC_7:25!3|MId=o210070250031|Strong=2050b 4 לִבּ לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=heart|Ref=ECC_7:25!3|MId=o210070250032|Strong=3820 5 ִי֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=ECC_7:25!3|MId=o210070250033|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 6-7 לָדַ֣עַת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_7:25!4|MId=o210070250041|Strong=3807a 7 דַ֣עַת יָדַע VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 1 advcl _ Gloss=know|Ref=ECC_7:25!4|MId=o210070250042|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:210010120021;A1:210070250071;210070250082;|Type=infinitive_construct 8-10 וְלָת֔וּר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_7:25!5|MId=o210070250051|Strong=2050b 9 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_7:25!5|MId=o210070250052|Strong=3807a 10 ת֔וּר תּוּר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 7 conj _ Gloss=examine|Ref=ECC_7:25!5|MId=o210070250053|Strong=8446|Frame=A0:210010120021;A1:210070250071;210070250082;|Type=infinitive_construct 11-12 וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_7:25!6|MId=o210070250061|Strong=2050b 12 בַקֵּ֥שׁ בָּקַשׁ VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 10 conj _ Gloss=to.seek|Ref=ECC_7:25!6|MId=o210070250062|Strong=1245|Frame=A0:210010120021;A1:210070250071;210070250082;|Type=infinitive_construct 13 חָכְמָ֖ה חׇכְמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obj _ Gloss=wisdom|Ref=ECC_7:25!7|MId=o210070250071|Strong=2451 14-15 וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 15 cc _ Gloss=and.[the]|Ref=ECC_7:25!8|MId=o210070250081|Strong=2050b 15 חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן חֶשְׁבּוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 conj _ Gloss=scheme.of.things|Ref=ECC_7:25!8|MId=o210070250082|Strong=2808 16-18 וְלָדַ֙עַת֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_7:25!9|MId=o210070250091|Strong=2050b 17 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_7:25!9|MId=o210070250092|Strong=3807a 18 דַ֙עַת֙ יָדַע VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 7 conj _ Gloss=know|Ref=ECC_7:25!9|MId=o210070250093|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:210010120021;A1:210070250111;210070250131;|Type=infinitive_construct 19 רֶ֣שַׁע רֶשַׁע NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Gloss=wickedness|Ref=ECC_7:25!10|MId=o210070250101|Strong=7562 20 כֶּ֔סֶל כֶּסֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ Gloss=stupidity|Ref=ECC_7:25!11|MId=o210070250111|Strong=3689a 21-23 וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 24 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_7:25!12|MId=o210070250121|Strong=2050b 22 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 23 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_7:25!12|MId=o210070250122|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 23 סִּכְל֖וּת סִכְלוּת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Gloss=folly|Ref=ECC_7:25!12|MId=o210070250123|Strong=5531 24 הוֹלֵלֽוֹת הוֹלֵלָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 20 conj _ Gloss=madness(es)|Ref=ECC_7:25!13|MId=o210070250131|Strong=1947|SpaceAfter=No 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=ECC_7:25!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | סַבּוֹתִֽי *I turned* | qatal · qal | אֲנִי *I* | | | | | דַעַת *know* | infinitive construct · qal | | חָכְמָה *wisdom* + חֶשְׁבּוֹן *scheme of things* | | | | תוּר *examine* | infinitive construct · qal | | חָכְמָה *wisdom* + חֶשְׁבּוֹן *scheme of things* | | | | בַקֵּשׁ *to seek* | infinitive construct · piel | | חָכְמָה *wisdom* + חֶשְׁבּוֹן *scheme of things* | | | | דַעַת *know* | infinitive construct · qal | | כֶּסֶל *stupidity* + הוֹלֵלֽוֹת *madness(es)* | | | 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} חֲזָּרִית אֲנָא לְחַשָּׁבָא בְּלִבִּי וּלְמֵידַע וּלְאַלָּלָא וּלְמִתְבַּע חוּכְמְתָא וְחוּשְׁבַּן אֲגַר עוֹבָדוֹי צַדִּיקַיָּא וּלְמִדַּע פּוּרְעֲנוּתָא חוֹבָא דְּשָׁטְיָא וְסוּכְלְתָנוּ חוּלְחוּלְתָא דְּמַלְכוּתָא: 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. [I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.147/) **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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