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title: Song of Songs 7:1 (JPS 1917) — Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. Who acts: you, we. Song of Songs 7:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 7:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** return, look · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Song of Songs 7:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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, we), 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:101
# text = Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee.
1	Return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	Shulammite	Shulammite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Shulammite *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | may | we | thee |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Attribute |

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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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שׁ֤וּבִי שׁ֙וּבִי֙ הַשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית שׁ֥וּבִי שׁ֖וּבִי וְנֶחֱזֶה־בָּ֑ךְ מַֽה־תֶּחֱזוּ֙ בַּשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית כִּמְחֹלַ֖ת הַֽמַּחֲנָֽיִם׃

[Song of Songs 7:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee.**
2. [What will ye see in the Shulammite?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.102/)
3. [As it were a dance of two companies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.103/)

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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:101` 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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