Song of Songs 8:8 · JPS 1917

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?

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

This is Song of Songs 8:8 · 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 (We, hand), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hath	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hath	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hath	nsubj
9	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 breasts	det
11	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hath	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 sister	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sister	nmod:poss
19	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 spoken	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spoken	nsubj:pass
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 spoken	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 spoken	aux:pass
27	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 day	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADV	_	27 spoken	advmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: offer
voice: character
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	a little sister			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
2	have	present	hand	no breasts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Patient
3	do	shall	we		day	for our sister	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	shall · passive		hand		for 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

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

Song of Songs 8:8: 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:127 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.127/