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title: Song of Songs 7:14 (JPS 1917) — The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner… · tree and pragmatics
description: The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. Who acts: mandrakes, I. Song of Songs 7:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 7:14 · JPS 1917

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The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

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**Who acts:** mandrakes, I · **What happens:** give, be, lay up · **To what, where:** fragrance, manner, doors, precious fruits

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This is Song of Songs 7:14 · 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 (mandrakes, I), 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:117
# text = The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mandrakes	mandrake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
13	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the mandrakes | fragrance |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the mandrakes *not said here* | all manner |  | our doors |  | of precious fruits | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay up** | present · perfect | I | precious fruits |  |  |  | for thee | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Result for thou=Beneficiary |

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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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הַֽדּוּדָאִ֣ים נָֽתְנוּ־רֵ֗יחַ וְעַל־פְּתָחֵ֙ינוּ֙ כָּל־מְגָדִ֔ים חֲדָשִׁ֖ים גַּם־יְשָׁנִ֑ים דּוֹדִ֖י צָפַ֥נְתִּי לָֽךְ׃

[Song of Songs 7:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.14/)

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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:117` 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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