Friday 21 August 2020

Inconsistencies between the haser and the maleh texts

I have now 'finished' Job in my test cases. I came across several inconsistencies in my own work and from this exercise, I was able to both identify them and correct them. So there is some value to this very detailed work. I also now have identified 25 instances where there are inconsistent mappings from the pointed to the unpointed text. I have put these in an error table so I don't have to keep looking at them.

My assumption is that the relationship between source and result is a single valued function not a multi-valued relation. I don't see why detailed language of this sort should not work that way at a word form level including consonants and vowels. (Essentially I am not allowing homonyms at this level. None of the inconsistencies I have seen involve a homonym: i.e. a word with the same sound and same form, but a different domain.) And as for the accents, the music is independent, a 'separate magisterium' from the consonants and vowels. True, one could change the pointing, but I don't want to make that assumption.

I now have about 25% of the words in my test data and examples of about half the stems. By the time I am finished should I be so lucky, I should be able to reduce the complexity of the algorithms further. So far reasoning by vowel, by stem, and prefix/suffix works - but it seems too complex still. I suspect rules related to possessives, and binyanim should be able to be articulated. But I note that either qamats or holem may play the same role in, for instance, a participle, so simplification is not obvious yet.

It is likely that the human brain / mind / or whatever, is capable of as much memorization as a computer algorithm. So complexity may be the rule, and not simplicity.

List of inconsistent mappings in the conversion of the WLC to unpointed spelling. In each case these are unique values that are different from at least one other instance and sometimes several other examples in the test data.

Reference

Stem

Word

Form

Pref/

\suff

Maleh

Calc.

Value

The Word

Domain

Gloss

 

1 Samuel 001:09(04)

acl

aclh

acl\h

aoclh

aclh

אָכְלָ֥ה

EAT

אכלה she had eaten

Micah 006:01(06)

amr

amr

amr

amr

aomr

אֹמֵ֑ר

SPEAK

אמר is saying

Esther 009:25(17)

at

atv

at\v

atv

aoto

אֹת֛וֹ

PARTICLE

אתו him

Hosea 013:15(03)

bn

bn

bn

bin

bn

בֵּ֥ן

FAMILY

בן child among

Ezekiel 016:04(06)

crt

crt

crt

-cort

-crt

־כָרַּ֣ת

CUT

כרת cut

Psalms 119:23(05)

dbr

ndbrv

n/dbr\v

nidbrv

ndbru

נִדְבָּ֑רוּ

SPEAK

נדברו they spoke

Psalms 034:14(05)

dbr

mdbr

m/dbr

mdbr

midbr

מִדַּבֵּ֥ר

SPEAK

מדבר from speaking

Psalms 034:11(04)

drw

vdrwi

v/drw\i

vdrwi

vdorwi

וְדֹרְשֵׁ֥י

SEEK

ודרשׁי but those searching for

Psalms 068:27(04)

ihvh

ihvh

ihvh

advnii

ihvh

יְ֝הוָ֗ה

GOD

יהוה Yahweh

Jeremiah 038:17(19)

kih

vkith

v/ki\th

vkiith

vkiit

וְחָיְתָ֣ה

LIFE

וחיתה then will live

Job 019:06(02)

ph

apv

a/p\v

-aipva

-aipo

־אֵ֭פוֹ

PLACE

אפו here

Job 011:08(04)

pyl

tpyl

t/pyl

-tpyl

-tpyol

־תִּפְעָ֑ל

WORK

תפעל work will you do

Qohelet 001:18(04)

rb

rb

rb

rvb

rb

רָב

MEASURE

רב there is much

Job 019:28(04)

rdp

nrdp

n/rdp

-nrdvf

-nrdf

־נִּרְדָּף

VIOLENCE

נרדף do we persecute

Genesis 011:07(11)

ryh

ryhv

ryh\v

ryhu

riyhu

רֵעֵֽהוּ

FAMILY

רעהו his associate's

Genesis 011:03(04)

ryh

ryhv

ryh\v

-ryhu

-riyhu

־רֵעֵ֗הוּ

FAMILY

רעהו his associate

Job 042:10(08)

ryh

ryhv

ryh\v

riyihv

riyhu

רֵעֵ֑הוּ

FAMILY

רעהו his friends

Job 030:10(01)

tyb

tybvni

tyb\vni

tiybvni

tybuni

תִּֽ֭עֲבוּנִי

SIN

תעבוני they abhor me

Job 024:15(03)

wmr

wmrh

wmr\h

wmrh

womrh

שָׁ֤מְרָֽה

PROTECT

שׁמרה watches for

Job 010:12(06)

wmr

wmrh

wmr\h

wmrh

womrh

שָֽׁמְרָ֥ה

PROTECT

שׁמרה guards

Psalms 119:16(01)

wmr

wmrh

wmr\h

wmrh

womrh

שָֽׁמְרָ֣ה

PROTECT

שׁמרה shelters

Psalms 037:06(04)

wp+

vmwp+c

vm/wp+\c

vmwp'tç

umwp'tiç

וּ֝מִשְׁפָּטֶ֗ךָ

JUDGMENT

ומשׁפטך and your judgment

1 Samuel 001:09(07)

wth

wth

wth

wth

wtoh

שָׁתֹ֑ה

EAT

שׁתה she had imbibed

Job 014:03(05)

yin

yinc

yin\c

yinç

yiniç

עֵינֶ֑ךָ

BODYPART

עינך your eye

Habakkuk 003:09(01)

yrh

yrih

yr\ih

yrih

yriih

עֶרְיָ֤ה

LIGHT

עריה exposed

 



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