Song of Songs 8:9 · JPS 1917

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a turret of silver; and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

Who acts: hand, we · What happens: be, build, enclose · To what, where: wall, turret, door, hand

This is Song of Songs 8:9 · 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 (hand, we), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 wall	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wall	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	5 wall	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 build	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wall	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 build	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 build	aux
9	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 build	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 turret	det
13	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 build	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 silver	case
15	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turret	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 enclose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 enclose	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 door	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 door	nsubj
20	be	be	AUX	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	22 door	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 enclose	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 door	punct
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 enclose	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 enclose	aux
26	enclose	enclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 build	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 enclose	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 boards	case
29	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 enclose	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cedar	case
31	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boards	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 build	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	hand	a wall		tree rules
2	build	future	we	a turret of silver	upon hand	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turret=Product
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	hand	a door		tree rules
4	enclose	future	we	hand	with boards of cedar	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

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

אִם־חוֹמָ֣ה הִ֔יא נִבְנֶ֥ה עָלֶ֖יהָ טִ֣ירַת כָּ֑סֶף וְאִם־דֶּ֣לֶת הִ֔יא נָצ֥וּר עָלֶ֖יהָ ל֥וּחַ אָֽרֶז׃

Song of Songs 8:9: 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:128 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.128/