--- title: Song of Songs 5:13 — His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh. Who acts: cheeks, lips, lilies. Song of Songs 5:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Song of Songs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG/) / [chapter 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG/5/) / 5:13 # Song of Songs 5:13 שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים **Who acts:** cheeks, lips, lilies · **What happens:** be, drop, flow This is Song of Songs 5:13 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). 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 — cheeks, lips, lilies — and what happens in the verse, 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. לְחָיָו֙ כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם מִגְדְּל֖וֹת מֶרְקָחִ֑ים שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים נֹטְפ֖וֹת מ֥וֹר עֹבֵֽר׃ [His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.81/) ## 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:73 # text = לְחָיָו֙ כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם מִגְדְּל֖וֹת מֶרְקָחִ֑ים שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים נֹטְפ֖וֹת מ֥וֹר עֹבֵֽר׃ # verse = SNG.5.13 1-2 לְחָיָו֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 לְחָי לְחִי NOUN _ Number=Dual 4 nsubj _ Gloss=cheeks|Ref=SNG_5:13!1|MId=o220050130011|Strong=3895 2 ָו֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=SNG_5:13!1|MId=o220050130012|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 3-4 כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 כַּ כְּ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=[are].like.(the)|Ref=SNG_5:13!2|MId=o220050130021|Strong=3509a 4 עֲרוּגַ֣ת עֲרוּגָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=bed|Ref=SNG_5:13!2|MId=o220050130022|Strong=6170 5-6 הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=of.(the)|Ref=SNG_5:13!3|MId=o220050130031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 בֹּ֔שֶׂם בֶּשֶׂם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 compound:smixut _ Gloss=spice|Ref=SNG_5:13!3|MId=o220050130032|Strong=1314 7 מִגְדְּל֖וֹת מִגְדָּל NOUN _ Number=Plur 4 appos _ Gloss=towers|Ref=SNG_5:13!4|MId=o220050130041|Strong=4026 8 מֶרְקָחִ֑ים מֶרְקָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.aromatic.herbs|Ref=SNG_5:13!5|MId=o220050130051|Strong=4840 9-10 שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 שִׂפְתוֹתָי שָׂפָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Gloss=lips|Ref=SNG_5:13!6|MId=o220050130061|Strong=8193 10 ו֙ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=SNG_5:13!6|MId=o220050130062|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 11 שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים שׁוּשַׁן NOUN _ Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Gloss=[are].lilies|Ref=SNG_5:13!7|MId=o220050130071|Strong=7799 12 נֹטְפ֖וֹת נָטַף VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Gloss=dripping|Ref=SNG_5:13!8|MId=o220050130081|Strong=5197|Frame=A0:220050130061;|Type=participle_active 13 מ֥וֹר מֹר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 12 obl _ Gloss=myrrh|Ref=SNG_5:13!9|MId=o220050130091|Strong=4753 14 עֹבֵֽר עָבַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Gloss=flowing|Ref=SNG_5:13!10|MId=o220050130101|Strong=5674|Frame=A0:220050130091;|Type=participle_active|SpaceAfter=No 15 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 14 punct _ Ref=SNG_5:13!10 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | נֹטְפוֹת *dripping* | participle active · qal | שִׂפְתוֹתָי *lips* | | | | | עֹבֵֽר *flowing* | participle active · qal | מוֹר *myrrh* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} תְּרֵין לוּחֵי אַבְנִין דִּיהַב לְעַמֵּיהּ כְּתִיבָן בַּעֲשַׂר שִׁטִּין דָּמְיָן לְשִׁטֵּי גִּנַּת בּוּסְמָא מְרַבְּיָן דִּקְדוּקִין וְטַעְמִין הֵיכְמָא דְּגִנְּתָא מְרַבְּיָא בּוּסְמִין וְשִׂפְוָתֵי חַכִּימוֹי דְּעָסְקִין בְּאוֹרַיְתָא זָלְחִין טַעְמִין בְּכָל סְטַר וּמֵימַר פּוּמְּהוֹן כְּמֵירָא בְּחִירָא: 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. [His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.81/) **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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