Song of Songs 3:1 · JPS 1917

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not.

Who acts: I, soul · What happens: seek, love, not find · To what, where: him, bed, soul

This is Song of Songs 3:1 · 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, soul), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sought	obl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bed	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bed	nmod:poss
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sought	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sought	nsubj
7	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sought	obj
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 loveth	obj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 soul	nmod:poss
11	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loveth	nsubj
12	loveth	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 him	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sought	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sought	nsubj
15	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sought	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sought	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sought	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	obj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 found	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seek	past	I	him = he	my bed	night	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bed=Location
2	love	present	my soul				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	seek	past	I	soul			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not find	past	I	soul			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

עַל־מִשְׁכָּבִי֙ בַּלֵּיל֔וֹת בִּקַּ֕שְׁתִּי אֵ֥ת שֶׁאָהֲבָ֖ה נַפְשִׁ֑י בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו וְלֹ֥א מְצָאתִֽיו׃

Song of Songs 3:1: 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:36 of Mova's parse database.

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