--- title: Ecclesiastes 8:13 — but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong h… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he feareth not before God. Who acts: evil, sinner, days. 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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 — evil, sinner, days — and what happens in the verse, 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. וְטוֹב֙ לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה לָֽרָשָׁ֔ע וְלֹֽא־יַאֲרִ֥יךְ יָמִ֖ים כַּצֵּ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֵינֶ֥נּוּ יָרֵ֖א מִלִּפְנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃ [but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.165/) ## 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:155 # text = וְטוֹב֙ לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה לָֽרָשָׁ֔ע וְלֹֽא־יַאֲרִ֥יךְ יָמִ֖ים כַּצֵּ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֵינֶ֥נּוּ יָרֵ֖א מִלִּפְנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃ # verse = ECC.8.13 1-2 וְטוֹב֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_8:13!1|MId=o210080130011|Strong=2050b 2 טוֹב֙ טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=good|Ref=ECC_8:13!1|MId=o210080130012|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 3 לֹֽא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 7 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ECC_8:13!2|MId=o210080130021|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 4 יִהְיֶ֣ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 cop _ Gloss=it.will.belong|Ref=ECC_8:13!3|MId=o210080130031|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:210080130012;|Type=yiqtol 5-7 לָֽרָשָׁ֔ע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 לָֽ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ECC_8:13!4|MId=o210080130041|Strong=3807a 6 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=ECC_8:13!4|MId=o210080130041ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 רָשָׁ֔ע רָשָׁע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=wicked|Ref=ECC_8:13!4|MId=o210080130042|Strong=7563|Type=adjective 8-9 וְלֹֽא־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_8:13!5|MId=o210080130051|Strong=2050b 9 לֹֽא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 10 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ECC_8:13!5|MId=o210080130052|Strong=3808|Type=negative 10 יַאֲרִ֥יךְ אָרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 conj _ Gloss=he.will.prolong|Ref=ECC_8:13!6|MId=o210080130061|Strong=0748|Frame=AA:210080130043;A0:210080130071;|Type=yiqtol 11 יָמִ֖ים יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 obj _ Gloss=days|Ref=ECC_8:13!7|MId=o210080130071|Strong=3117 12-14 כַּצֵּ֑ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 כַּ כְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=ECC_8:13!8|MId=o210080130081|Strong=3509a 13 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=ECC_8:13!8|MId=o210080130081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 צֵּ֑ל צֵל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 obl _ Gloss=shadow|Ref=ECC_8:13!8|MId=o210080130082|Strong=6738 15 אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 18 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=ECC_8:13!9|MId=o210080130091|Strong=0834|Type=relative 16-17 אֵינֶ֥נּוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 אֵינ אַיִן ADV _ _ 18 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=ECC_8:13!10|MId=o210080130101|Strong=0369|Type=negative 17 ֶ֥נּוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ Gloss=he|Ref=ECC_8:13!10|MId=o210080130102|Strong=5105b|Type=pronominal 18 יָרֵ֖א יָרֵא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Gloss=he.has.feared|Ref=ECC_8:13!11|MId=o210080130111|Strong=3373|Type=participle_active 19-21 מִלִּפְנֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=ECC_8:13!12|MId=o210080130121|Strong=4480 20 לִּ לְ ADP _ _ 21 case _ Gloss=|Ref=ECC_8:13!12|MId=o210080130122|Strong=3807a 21 פְנֵ֥י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 18 obl _ Gloss=before|Ref=ECC_8:13!12|MId=o210080130123|Strong=6440 22 אֱלֹהִֽים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 21 compound:smixut _ Gloss=God|Ref=ECC_8:13!13|MId=o210080130131|Strong=0430|SpaceAfter=No 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=ECC_8:13!13 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִהְיֶה *it will belong* | yiqtol · qal | טוֹב *good* | | | | | **not** יַאֲרִיךְ *he will prolong* | yiqtol · hiphil | יָמִים *days* | | | | 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} וְטָב לָא יְהֵי לְרַשִּׁיעָא וְלָא יְהֵי לֵיהּ אַרְכָּא לְעַלְמָא דְּאָתֵי וּבְעַלְמָא הָדֵין אִתְקְטָעוּן יוֹמֵי חַיּוֹהִי וִיעַרְקוּן וִיחַלְפוּן כִּטְלָלָא בְּגִין דְּלֵיתוֹהִי דָּחִיל מִן קֳדָם יְיָ: 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. [but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.165/) **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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