Song of Songs 4:3 · JPS 1917

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is comely; thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.

Who acts: lips, mouth, temples · What happens: be, split · To what, where: pomegranate, veil

This is Song of Songs 4:3 · 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 (lips, mouth, temples), 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	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 lips	nmod:poss
2	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thread	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thread	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 thread	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thread	det
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 scarlet	case
8	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thread	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comely	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 comely	cc
11	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comely	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 comely	cop
14	comely	comely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thread	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 pomegranate	punct
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 temples	nmod:poss
17	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pomegranate	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 pomegranate	cop
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 pomegranate	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pomegranate	det
21	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thread	parataxis
22	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 pomegranate	acl
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 split	xcomp
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 veil	case
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 veil	nmod:poss
26	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 split	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Thy lips			like a thread; of scarlet	tree rules
2	is	present	thy mouth			comely property	tree rules
3	is	present	thy temples			like a pomegranate	tree rules
4	split	participle		a pomegranate not said here	thy veil	open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

כְּח֤וּט הַשָּׁנִי֙ שִׂפְתֹתַ֔יִךְ וּמִדְבָּרֵ֖יךְ נָאוֶ֑ה כְּפֶ֤לַח הָֽרִמּוֹן֙ רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃

Song of Songs 4:3: 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:49 of Mova's parse database.

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