Song of Songs 4:10 · JPS 1917

How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all manner of spices!

Who acts: love, thy, ointments · What happens: be, love, smell

This is Song of Songs 4:10 · 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 (love, thy, ointments), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 fair	advmod
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fair	cop
4	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 love	nmod:poss
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fair	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sister	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fair	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bride	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bride	nmod:poss
11	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fair	vocative
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 fair	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 better	advmod
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 fair	parataxis
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 better	cop
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 love	nmod:poss
18	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 better	nsubj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 wine	case
20	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 better	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 better	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smell	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smell	det
24	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 better	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 ointments	case
26	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 ointments	nmod:poss
27	ointments	ointment	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smell	nmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 manner	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 manner	det
30	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smell	orphan
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 spices	case
32	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 manner	nmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 better	punct

Pragmatics

form: exclamation
act: express
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	thy love	my sister vocative; my bride vocative; fair property	tree rules
2	is	present	thy love	than wine; good property	tree rules
3	love		thy		nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
4	love		thy		nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
5	smell		thine ointments		nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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

מַה־יָּפ֥וּ דֹדַ֖יִךְ אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה מַה־טֹּ֤בוּ דֹדַ֙יִךְ֙ מִיַּ֔יִן וְרֵ֥יחַ שְׁמָנַ֖יִךְ מִכָּל־בְּשָׂמִֽים׃

Song of Songs 4:10: 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:56 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.

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