Song of Songs 8:8 שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים

Who acts: We, hand · What happens: have, do, speak · To what, where: little sister, breasts, hand · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Song of Songs 8:8 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 — We, hand — and what happens in the verse to little sister, breasts, hand, 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.

אָח֥וֹת לָ֙נוּ֙ קְטַנָּ֔ה וְשָׁדַ֖יִם אֵ֣ין לָ֑הּ מַֽה־נַּעֲשֶׂה֙ לַאֲחֹתֵ֔נוּ בַּיּ֖וֹם שֶׁיְּדֻבַּר־בָּֽהּ׃

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

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	אָח֥וֹת	אָחוֹת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	3 ָ֙נוּ֙	nsubj	a sister
2	ל	לְ	ADP	_	3 ָ֙נוּ֙	case	[belongs] to
3	ָ֙נוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root	us
4	קְטַנָּ֔ה	קָטָן	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	1 אָח֥וֹת	amod	small
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 אֵ֣ין	cc	and
6	שָׁדַ֖יִם	שַׁד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Dual	7 אֵ֣ין	nsubj	breasts
7	אֵ֣ין	אַיִן	ADV	_	3 ָ֙נוּ֙	conj	there [are] not
8	ל	לְ	ADP	_	9 ָ֑הּ	case	to
9	ָ֑הּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 אֵ֣ין	obl	her
10	מַֽה־	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	11 נַּעֲשֶׂה֙	obj	what?
11	נַּעֲשֶׂה֙	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	3 ָ֙נוּ֙	parataxis	will we do
12	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	13 אֲחֹת	case	for
13	אֲחֹת	אָחוֹת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	11 נַּעֲשֶׂה֙	obl	sister
14	ֵ֔נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 אֲחֹת	nmod:poss	our
15	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	17 יּ֖וֹם	case	on
16	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 יּ֖וֹם	det	the
17	יּ֖וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 נַּעֲשֶׂה֙	obl	day
18	שֶׁ	שֶׁ	SCONJ	_	19 יְּדֻבַּר־	mark	when
19	יְּדֻבַּר־	דָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PUAL Number=Sing Person=3	17 יּ֖וֹם	acl:relcl	it will be spoken
20	בּ	בְּ	ADP	_	21 ָֽהּ	case	for
21	ָֽהּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 יְּדֻבַּר־	obl	her
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	21 ָֽהּ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
נַּעֲשֶׂה will we do	yiqtol · qal		מַֽה־ what?

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

בְּעִדָּנָא הַהוּא יֵימְרוּן מַלְאֲכֵי שְׁמַיָּא אִלֵּין לְאִלֵּין אוּמָּא חֲדָא אִית לָן בְּאַרְעָא וְקַלִּילָן זָכְוָתָהָא וּמַלְכִין וְשִׁלְטוֹנִין לֵית לָהּ לְמִפַּק לְאָגָחָא קְרָבָא עִם מַשְׁרְיָתֵיהּ דְּגוֹג מָה נַעֲבֵיד לְאַחָתַנָא בְּיוֹמָא דְּמַלִּילוּ אוּמַּיָּא לְמִסַּק עֲלַהּ לִקְרָבָא:

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.

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

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:110.

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