Song of Songs 8:7 · JPS 1917
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be contemned.
Who acts: Many waters, floods, man · What happens: not quench, drown, give, contemn · To what, where: love, substance, man
This is Song of Songs 8:7 · 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 (Many waters, floods, man), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waters | amod |
| 2 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quench | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 quench | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 quench | advmod |
| 5 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quench | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drown | punct |
| 8 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 drown | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 drown | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 floods | det |
| 11 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drown | nsubj |
| 12 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quench | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drown | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 contemned | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 contemned | advcl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 substance | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 substance | det |
| 22 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 substance | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 love | case |
| 27 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 contemned | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 contemned | aux |
| 31 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 33 contemned | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 contemned | aux:pass |
| 33 | contemned | contemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 quench | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quench | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not quench | can | Many waters | love | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus love=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | drown | can | the floods | love | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | a man | all substance of man's house | for love | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent substance=Theme for love=Asset | |||
| 4 | contemn | would · passive | man | utterly property | tree rules |
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
מַ֣יִם רַבִּ֗ים לֹ֤א יֽוּכְלוּ֙ לְכַבּ֣וֹת אֶת־הָֽאַהֲבָ֔ה וּנְהָר֖וֹת לֹ֣א יִשְׁטְפ֑וּהָ אִם־יִתֵּ֨ן אִ֜ישׁ אֶת־כָּל־ה֤וֹן בֵּיתוֹ֙ בָּאַהֲבָ֔ה בּ֖וֹז יָב֥וּזוּ לֽוֹ׃ס
Song of Songs 8:7: 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:126 of Mova's parse database.
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