--- title: Ecclesiastes 8:11 — Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, ther… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil; Ecclesiastes 8:11 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.8.11/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/8/) / 8:11 # Ecclesiastes 8:11 קֹהֶלֶת **What happens:** not execute, set, do · **To what, where:** sentence, heart, evil This is Ecclesiastes 8:11 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: what happens in the verse to sentence, heart, evil, 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. אֲשֶׁר֙ אֵין־נַעֲשָׂ֣ה פִתְגָ֔ם מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה מְהֵרָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֡ן מָלֵ֞א לֵ֧ב בְּֽנֵי־הָאָדָ֛ם בָּהֶ֖ם לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת רָֽע׃ [Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.163/) ## 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:153 # text = אֲשֶׁר֙ אֵין־נַעֲשָׂ֣ה פִתְגָ֔ם מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה מְהֵרָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֡ן מָלֵ֞א לֵ֧ב בְּֽנֵי־הָאָדָ֛ם בָּהֶ֖ם לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת רָֽע׃ # verse = ECC.8.11 1 אֲשֶׁר֙ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 3 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=ECC_8:11!1|MId=o210080110011|Strong=0834|Type=relative 2 אֵין־ אַיִן ADV _ _ 3 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ECC_8:11!2|MId=o210080110021|Strong=0369|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 3 נַעֲשָׂ֣ה עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 11 parataxis _ Gloss=it.is.done|Ref=ECC_8:11!3|MId=o210080110031|Strong=6213|Frame=A1:210080110041;|Type=qatal 4 פִתְגָ֔ם פִּתְגָּם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Gloss=the.sentence|Ref=ECC_8:11!4|MId=o210080110041|Strong=6599 5 מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה מַעֲשֶׂה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.deed|Ref=ECC_8:11!5|MId=o210080110051|Strong=4639 6-7 הָרָעָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=ECC_8:11!6|MId=o210080110061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 רָעָ֖ה רָעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.evil|Ref=ECC_8:11!6|MId=o210080110062|Strong=7451b 8 מְהֵרָ֑ה מְהֵרָה ADV _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 3 advmod _ Gloss=quickly|Ref=ECC_8:11!7|MId=o210080110071|Strong=4120 9 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=therefore|Ref=ECC_8:11!8|MId=o210080110081|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 10 כֵּ֡ן כֵּן ADV _ _ 11 nmod _ Gloss=|Ref=ECC_8:11!9|MId=o210080110091|Strong=3651|Type=demonstrative 11 מָלֵ֞א מָלֵא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.is.full|Ref=ECC_8:11!10|MId=o210080110101|Strong=4390|Frame=A0:210080110111;|Type=qatal 12 לֵ֧ב לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=the.heart|Ref=ECC_8:11!11|MId=o210080110111|Strong=3820 13 בְּֽנֵי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.the.children|Ref=ECC_8:11!12|MId=o210080110121|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 14-15 הָאָדָ֛ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=ECC_8:11!13|MId=o210080110131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 אָדָ֛ם אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=humankind|Ref=ECC_8:11!13|MId=o210080110132|Strong=0120 16-17 בָּהֶ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=ECC_8:11!14|MId=o210080110141|Strong=0871a 17 ָהֶ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=ECC_8:11!14|MId=o210080110142|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 18-19 לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_8:11!15|MId=o210080110151|Strong=3807a 19 עֲשׂ֥וֹת עָשָׂה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 11 advcl _ Gloss=do|Ref=ECC_8:11!15|MId=o210080110152|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:210080110121;A1:210080110161;|Type=infinitive_construct 20 רָֽע רַע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 19 obj _ Gloss=evil|Ref=ECC_8:11!16|MId=o210080110161|Strong=7451|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=ECC_8:11!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** נַעֲשָׂה *it is done* | qatal · niphal | | פִתְגָם *the sentence* | | | | מָלֵא *it is full* | qatal · qal | לֵב *the heart* | | | | | עֲשׂוֹת *do* | infinitive construct · qal | בְּֽנֵי־ *of the children* | רָֽע *evil* | | | 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} וּמִן בִּגְלַל דְּלֵית מִתְעֲבֵיד פִּתְגָם בִּישׁ פּוּרְעֲנוּת רַשִּׁיעָא בִּפְרִיעַ עַל עוֹבָדֵיהוֹן בִּישַׁיָּא בְּגִין כֵּן אִתְמְלֵי לִבָּא דִּבְנֵי אֱנָשָׁא בְּהוֹן לְמֶעֱבַד בִּישׁ בְּעַלְמָא הָדֵין: 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. [Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.163/) **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:153`. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 8:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.10/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 8:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.12/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/8/)