Song of Songs 4:4 שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים

Who acts: neck · What happens: be, build, hang · To what, where: tower, thousand shields

This is Song of Songs 4:4 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 — neck — and what happens in the verse to tower, thousand shields, 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 8 chapters of Song of Songs on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

כְּמִגְדַּ֤ל דָּוִיד֙ צַוָּארֵ֔ךְ בָּנ֖וּי לְתַלְפִּיּ֑וֹת אֶ֤לֶף הַמָּגֵן֙ תָּל֣וּי עָלָ֔יו כֹּ֖ל שִׁלְטֵ֥י הַגִּבּוֹרִֽים׃

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon there hang a thousand shields, all the armour of the mighty men.

The 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.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	כְּ	כְּ	ADP	_	2 מִגְדַּ֤ל	case	[is] like
2	מִגְדַּ֤ל	מִגְדָּל	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root	the tower
3	דָּוִיד֙	דָּוִד	PROPN	_	2 מִגְדַּ֤ל	compound:smixut	of David
4	צַוָּאר	צַוָּאר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 מִגְדַּ֤ל	nsubj	neck
5	ֵ֔ךְ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 צַוָּאר	nmod:poss	your
6	בָּנ֖וּי	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	2 מִגְדַּ֤ל	acl:relcl	built
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	8 תַלְפִּיּ֑וֹת	case	to
8	תַלְפִּיּ֑וֹת	תַּלְפִּיָּוֹת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	6 בָּנ֖וּי	obl	layers
9	אֶ֤לֶף	אֶלֶף	NUM	Number=Sing	11 מָּגֵן֙	nummod	(the) thousand
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 מָּגֵן֙	det	(the)
11	מָּגֵן֙	מָגֵן	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 תָּל֣וּי	nsubj	shield[s]
12	תָּל֣וּי	תָּלָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	2 מִגְדַּ֤ל	parataxis	[is] hung
13	עָלָ֔י	עַל	ADP	_	14 ו	case	on
14	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 תָּל֣וּי	obl	it
15	כֹּ֖ל	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 מִגְדַּ֤ל	parataxis	all
16	שִׁלְטֵ֥י	שֶׁלֶט	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	15 כֹּ֖ל	compound:smixut	the shields
17	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 גִּבּוֹרִֽים	det	of
18	גִּבּוֹרִֽים	גִּבּוֹר	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	16 שִׁלְטֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the warriors
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	18 גִּבּוֹרִֽים	punct

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)
בָּנוּי built	participle passive · qal		מִגְדַּל the tower
תָּלוּי [is] hung	participle passive · qal		מָּגֵן shield[s]

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

וְרֵישׁ מְתִיבְתָא דְּהוּא רַב דִי לִיךְ חַסִּין בִּזְכוּתָא וְרַב בְּעוּבָדִין טָבִין כְּדָוִד מַלְכָּא דְּיִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל מֵימַר פּוּמֵּיהּ הֲוָה מִתְבְּנֵי עָלְמָא וּבְאוּלְפַן אוֹרַיְתָא דַּהֲוָה עָסֵיק רְחִיצִין עַמָּא בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמְנַצְּחִין בִּקְרָבָא כְּאִלּוּ אָחְדִין בִּידֵיהוֹן כָּל מָנֵי זַיְנִין דְּגִבָּרִין:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

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.

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon there hang a thousand shields, all the armour of the mighty men.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC 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:SNG:48.

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