Song of Songs 1:8 · JPS 1917

If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock and feed thy kids, beside the shepherds' tents.

Who acts: thou, you · What happens: not know, go, feed · To what, where: way, kids, tents

This is Song of Songs 1:8 · 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 (thou, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 know	mark
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	advcl
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 know	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	7 thou	discourse
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 fairest	nsubj
8	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 know	ccomp
9	among	among	ADP	_	10 women	case
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fairest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obj
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 footsteps	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 footsteps	det
18	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 flock	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flock	det
21	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 footsteps	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feed	cc
23	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
24	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 kids	nmod:poss
25	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feed	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tents	punct
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 tents	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shepherds	det
29	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tents	nmod:poss
30	'	's	PART	_	29 shepherds	case
31	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request, indirect=0, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know a condition, not said to happen	present	thou					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	imperative	you not said here	thy way			by the footsteps of the flock; forth property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	feed	infinitive	you not said here		thy kids	the shepherds's tents		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient

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

אִם־לֹ֤א תֵדְעִי֙ לָ֔ךְ הַיָּפָ֖ה בַּנָּשִׁ֑ים צְֽאִי־לָ֞ךְ בְּעִקְבֵ֣י הַצֹּ֗אן וּרְעִי֙ אֶת־גְּדִיֹּתַ֔יִךְ עַ֖ל מִשְׁכְּנ֥וֹת הָרֹעִֽים׃ס

Song of Songs 1:8: 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:7 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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