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title: Song of Songs 7:10 (JPS 1917) — And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoo… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.' Who acts: roof. Song of Songs 7:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 7:10 · JPS 1917

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And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.'

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**Who acts:** roof · **What happens:** glide down, move, be · **To what, where:** lips

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This is Song of Songs 7:10 · 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 (roof), 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:113
# text = And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	glideth	glide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide down** | present | the roof of thy mouth like the best wine |  |  |  |  | for my beloved; down, smoothly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | the roof of thy mouth like the best wine *not said here* | the lips of those |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lip=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |

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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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וְחִכֵּ֕ךְ כְּיֵ֥ין הַטּ֛וֹב הוֹלֵ֥ךְ לְדוֹדִ֖י לְמֵישָׁרִ֑ים דּוֹבֵ֖ב שִׂפְתֵ֥י יְשֵׁנִֽים׃

[Song of Songs 7:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.10/)

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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:113` 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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