Song of Songs 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!
Who acts: thou, brother · What happens: be, suck · To what, where: breasts
This is Song of Songs 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 brother | discourse |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 brother | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 brother | nsubj |
| 4 | wert | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brother | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 brother | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sucked | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sucked | nsubj |
| 10 | sucked | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 breasts | det |
| 12 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sucked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breasts | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- other
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=express, polarity=none, form=other
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thou | as my brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suck | past | my brother | the breasts of my mother | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent breast=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
מִ֤י יִתֶּנְךָ֙ כְּאָ֣ח לִ֔י יוֹנֵ֖ק שְׁדֵ֣י אִמִּ֑י אֶֽמְצָאֲךָ֤ בַחוּץ֙ אֶשָׁ֣קְךָ֔גַּ֖ם לֹא־יָב֥וּזוּ לִֽי׃
Song of Songs 8:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!
- When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:SNG:118 of Mova's parse database.
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