Song of Songs 5:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Who acts: I · What happens: wash, defile · To what, where: feet
This is Song of Songs 5:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 washed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | aux |
| 3 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 washed | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 defile | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 defile | advmod |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 defile | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 defile | nsubj |
| 10 | defile | defile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 washed | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 defile | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | present · perfect | I | my feet | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | defile | shall | I | feet = foot | tree rules |
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
פָּשַׁ֙טְתִּי֙ אֶת־כֻּתָּנְתִּ֔י אֵיכָ֖כָה אֶלְבָּשֶׁ֑נָּה רָחַ֥צְתִּי אֶת־רַגְלַ֖י אֵיכָ֥כָה אֲטַנְּפֵֽם׃
Song of Songs 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on?
- I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:SNG:68 of Mova's parse database.
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