--- title: Song of Songs 4:3 — Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is comely; thy… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — lips, mouth, temples — and what happens in the verse to pomegranate, veil, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 8 chapters of Song of Songs on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. כְּח֤וּט הַשָּׁנִי֙ שִׂפְתֹתַ֔יִךְ וּמִדְבָּרֵ֖יךְ נָאוֶ֑ה כְּפֶ֤לַח הָֽרִמּוֹן֙ רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃ [Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is comely; thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.49/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:SNG:47 # text = כְּח֤וּט הַשָּׁנִי֙ שִׂפְתֹתַ֔יִךְ וּמִדְבָּרֵ֖יךְ נָאוֶ֑ה כְּפֶ֤לַח הָֽרִמּוֹן֙ רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ מִבַּ֖עַד לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ׃ # verse = SNG.4.3 1-2 כְּח֤וּט _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=[are].like.(the)|Ref=SNG_4:3!1|MId=o220040030011|Strong=3509a 2 ח֤וּט חוּט NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=thread|Ref=SNG_4:3!1|MId=o220040030012|Strong=2339 3-4 הַשָּׁנִי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=SNG_4:3!2|MId=o220040030021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 שָּׁנִי֙ שָׁנִי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 compound:smixut _ Gloss=scarlet|Ref=SNG_4:3!2|MId=o220040030022|Strong=8144 5-6 שִׂפְתֹתַ֔יִךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 שִׂפְתֹתַ֔י שָׂפָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=lips|Ref=SNG_4:3!3|MId=o220040030031|Strong=8193 6 ִךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=SNG_4:3!3|MId=o220040030032|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 7-9 וּמִדְבָּרֵ֖יךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=SNG_4:3!4|MId=o220040030041|Strong=2050b 8 מִדְבָּרֵ֖י מִדְבָּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=mouth(s)|Ref=SNG_4:3!4|MId=o220040030042|Strong=4057a 9 ךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=SNG_4:3!4|MId=o220040030043|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 10 נָאוֶ֑ה נָאוֶה ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 conj _ Gloss=[is].lovely|Ref=SNG_4:3!5|MId=o220040030051|Strong=5000|Type=adjective 11-12 כְּפֶ֤לַח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 כְּ כְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=[is].like.(the)|Ref=SNG_4:3!6|MId=o220040030061|Strong=3509a 12 פֶ֤לַח פֶּלַח NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=slice|Ref=SNG_4:3!6|MId=o220040030062|Strong=6400 13-14 הָֽרִמּוֹן֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=SNG_4:3!7|MId=o220040030071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 רִמּוֹן֙ רִמּוֹן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 compound:smixut _ Gloss=pomegranate|Ref=SNG_4:3!7|MId=o220040030072|Strong=7416 15-16 רַקָּתֵ֔ךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 רַקָּת רַקָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Gloss=temple|Ref=SNG_4:3!8|MId=o220040030081|Strong=7541 16 ֵ֔ךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=SNG_4:3!8|MId=o220040030082|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 17-18 מִבַּ֖עַד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=SNG_4:3!9|MId=o220040030091|Strong=4480 18 בַּ֖עַד בַּעַד ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=behind|Ref=SNG_4:3!9|MId=o220040030092|Strong=1157 19-21 לְצַמָּתֵֽךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=SNG_4:3!10|MId=o220040030101|Strong=3807a 20 צַמָּת צַמָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=veil|Ref=SNG_4:3!10|MId=o220040030102|Strong=6777 21 ֵֽךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=your|Ref=SNG_4:3!10|MId=o220040030103|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=SNG_4:3!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse. ## The Targum {#onkelos} וְשִׂפְתוֹי דְּכָהֲנָא רַבָּא הֲווֹ בַּעְיָן צְלוֹתָא בְּיוֹמָא דְּכִפּוּרֵי קֳדָם יְיָ וּמִלּוֹי הֲווֹ מְהַפְּכִין חוֹבֵיהוֹן דְּיִשְׂרָאֵל דְּדָמְיָן לְחוּט זְהוֹרִיתָא וּמְחַוְּרָן יָתְהוֹן כְּעַמַּר נְקֵי וּמַלְכָּא דְּהוּא רֵישְׁהוֹן מְלִי פִּקּוֹדַיָּא כְּרִמּוֹנָא בָּר מִן אַמַּרְכְּלַיָּא וְאַרְכּוֹנִין דְּאִנּוּן קָרִיבִין לְמַלְכָּא דְּאִנּוּן צַדִּיקִין וְלֵית בְּהוֹן מִדָּעַם בִּישׁ: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is comely; thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.49/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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