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title: Song of Songs 7:2 (JPS 1917) — How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter! · tree and pragmatics
description: How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter! Who acts: steps, thy. Song of Songs 7:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 7:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter!

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**Who acts:** steps, thy · **What happens:** be, step · **To what, where:** sandals

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This is Song of Songs 7:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (steps, 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:104
# text = How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | thy steps in sandals |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **step** |  | thy |  |  | sandals |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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מַה־יָּפ֧וּ פְעָמַ֛יִךְ בַּנְּעָלִ֖ים בַּת־נָדִ֑יב חַמּוּקֵ֣י יְרֵכַ֔יִךְ כְּמ֣וֹ חֲלָאִ֔ים מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יְדֵ֥י אָמָּֽן׃

[Song of Songs 7:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter!**
2. [The roundings of thy thighs are like the links of a chain, the work of the hands of a skilled workman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.105/)

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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:104` 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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