Song of Songs 8:6 · JPS 1917
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.
Who acts: you, love, jealousy, flashes, LORD · What happens: set, be, flame · To what, where: me, flashes
This is Song of Songs 8:6 · 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 (you, love, jealousy, flashes), 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 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Set | obj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 seal | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 seal | det |
| 5 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Set | obl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seal | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seal | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 seal | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 seal | det |
| 12 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Set | obl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 arm | case |
| 14 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 arm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seal | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 strong | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 strong | mark |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strong | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 strong | cop |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Set | advcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strong | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cruel | punct |
| 24 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cruel | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 cruel | cop |
| 26 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strong | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 grave | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 grave | det |
| 29 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cruel | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 flashes | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 flashes | det |
| 32 | flashes | flash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 flashes | nsubj |
| 33 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 32 flashes | nmod |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 flashes | cop |
| 35 | flashes | flash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cruel | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 fire | case |
| 37 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flashes | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 flame | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 flame | det |
| 40 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 flame | amod |
| 41 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flashes | appos |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 LORD | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 LORD | det |
| 44 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 flame | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Set | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | imperative | you not said here | me | as a seal upon thy heart; as a seal upon thine arm | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | |||
| 2 | is | present | love | as death; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | jealousy | as the grave; cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the flashes | flashes | of fire | tree rules | |||
| 5 | flame | the LORD | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |
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
שִׂימֵ֨נִי כַֽחוֹתָ֜ם עַל־לִבֶּ֗ךָ כַּֽחוֹתָם֙ עַל־זְרוֹעֶ֔ךָ כִּֽי־עַזָּ֤ה כַמָּ֙וֶת֙ אַהֲבָ֔ה קָשָׁ֥ה כִשְׁא֖וֹל קִנְאָ֑ה רְשָׁפֶ֕יהָ רִשְׁפֵּ֕י אֵ֖שׁ שַׁלְהֶ֥בֶתְ יָֽה׃
Song of Songs 8:6: 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:125 of Mova's parse database.
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