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title: Song of Songs 8:1 (JPS 1917) — When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me. Who acts: I, none. Song of Songs 8:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.

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**Who acts:** I, none · **What happens:** find, kiss, despise · **To what, where:** thee, me

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This is Song of Songs 8:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (I, none), 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:119
# text = When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	without	without	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
13	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | should | I | thee |  |  |  | without *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic |
| 2 | **kiss** | would | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **despise** | would | none | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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מִ֤י יִתֶּנְךָ֙ כְּאָ֣ח לִ֔י יוֹנֵ֖ק שְׁדֵ֣י אִמִּ֑י אֶֽמְצָאֲךָ֤ בַחוּץ֙ אֶשָׁ֣קְךָ֔גַּ֖ם לֹא־יָב֥וּזוּ לִֽי׃

[Song of Songs 8:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.118/)
2. **When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, and none would despise me.**

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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:119` 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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