Song of Songs 4:4 · JPS 1917

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon there hang a thousand shields, all the armour of the mighty men.

Who acts: neck · What happens: be, build, hang · To what, where: tower, thousand shields

This is Song of Songs 4:4 · 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 (neck), 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 neck	nmod:poss
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tower	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tower	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 tower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 David	case
8	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tower	nmod
9	builded	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tower	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 turrets	case
11	turrets	turret	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 builded	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hang	punct
13	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 hang	advmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 hang	expl
15	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tower	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thousand	det
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 shields	nummod
18	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hang	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 armour	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 armour	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 armour	det
22	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shields	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 men	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 men	det
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 armour	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tower	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Thy neck			like the tower; of David	tree rules
2	build	participle		the tower not said here		with turrets	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with turret=Source
3	hang	present		thousand shields	there	whereon property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=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

כְּמִגְדַּ֤ל דָּוִיד֙ צַוָּארֵ֔ךְ בָּנ֖וּי לְתַלְפִּיּ֑וֹת אֶ֤לֶף הַמָּגֵן֙ תָּל֣וּי עָלָ֔יו כֹּ֖ל שִׁלְטֵ֥י הַגִּבּוֹרִֽים׃

Song of Songs 4:4: 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:50 of Mova's parse database.

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