Song of Songs 8:4 · JPS 1917
'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem: Why should ye awaken, or stir up love, until it please?'
Who acts: I, ye, love · What happens: adjure, awaken, stir up, please · To what, where: you, love
This is Song of Songs 8:4 · JPS 1917 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 (I, ye, love), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 adjure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 adjure | nsubj |
| 3 | adjure | adjure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 adjure | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 daughters | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 daughters | discourse |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adjure | vocative |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Jerusalem | case |
| 9 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 daughters | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 awaken | punct |
| 11 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 awaken | advmod |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 awaken | aux |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 awaken | nsubj |
| 14 | awaken | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 adjure | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stir | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 stir | cc |
| 17 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 awaken | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 stir | compound:prt |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stir | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 please | punct |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 please | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 please | nsubj |
| 23 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stir | advcl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 adjure | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 adjure | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request, form=decl, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adjure | present | I | you | daughters of Jerusalem vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | awaken | should | ye | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stir up | infinitive | ye not said here | love | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition love=Patient | ||||
| 4 | please | present | love | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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
הִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי אֶתְכֶ֖ם בְּנ֣וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם מַה־תָּעִ֧ירוּ ׀ וּֽמַה־תְּעֹֽרְר֛וּ אֶת־הָאַהֲבָ֖ה עַ֥ד שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ס
Song of Songs 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:SNG:122 of Mova's parse database.
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