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title: Song of Songs 1:2 (JPS 1917) — Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — for thy love is bette… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — for thy love is better than wine. Who acts: you, Solomon, love, thy. Song of Songs 1:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 1:2 · JPS 1917

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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — for thy love is better than wine.

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**Who acts:** you, Solomon, love, thy · **What happens:** let, kiss, be, love · **To what, where:** Solomon, me, mouth

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This is Song of Songs 1:2 · 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 (you, Solomon, love, thy), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:SNG:1
# text = Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — for thy love is better than wine.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advcl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Solomon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kiss** | infinitive | Solomon *not said here* | me |  |  |  | with the kisses of Solomon's mouth | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Experiencer with kiss=Instrument |
| 3 | **is** | present | thy love |  |  |  |  | than wine; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **kiss** |  |  | Solomon's mouth |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **love** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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יִשָּׁקֵ֙נִי֙ מִנְּשִׁיק֣וֹת פִּ֔יהוּ כִּֽי־טוֹבִ֥ים דֹּדֶ֖יךָ מִיָּֽיִן׃

[Song of Songs 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:SNG:1` 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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