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title: Song of Songs 7:9 (JPS 1917) — I said: 'I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the… · tree and pragmatics
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# Song of Songs 7:9 · JPS 1917

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I said: 'I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof; and let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy countenance like apples;

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**Who acts:** I, breasts, countenance · **What happens:** say, climb up, take, let, be, hold · **To what, where:** palm tree, hold, breasts, branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Song of Songs 7:9 · 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 (I, breasts, countenance), 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:112
# text = I said: 'I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof; and let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy countenance like apples;
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	xcomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: offer
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **climb up** | future | I |  |  | the palm tree |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | future | I | hold of the branches |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | thy breasts |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | thy breasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as clusters and the smell of thy countenance like apples; of the vine | tree rules |
| 6 | **hold** |  |  | the branches |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **smell** |  | thy countenance |  |  |  |  | like apples | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent like=obl |

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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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אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ אֶעֱלֶ֣ה בְתָמָ֔ר אֹֽחֲזָ֖ה בְּסַנְסִנָּ֑יו וְיִֽהְיוּ־נָ֤א שָׁדַ֙יִךְ֙ כְּאֶשְׁכְּל֣וֹת הַגֶּ֔פֶן וְרֵ֥יחַ אַפֵּ֖ךְ כַּתַּפּוּחִֽים׃

[Song of Songs 7:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.9/)

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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:112` 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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