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title: Song of Songs 8:2 (JPS 1917) — I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate. Who acts: I, thou, thee. Song of Songs 8:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 8:2 · JPS 1917

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I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

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**Who acts:** I, thou, thee · **What happens:** lead, bring, instruct, cause, drink, spice · **To what, where:** thee, house, me

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This is Song of Songs 8:2 · 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, thou, thee), 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:120
# text = I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	mightest	might	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	instruct	instruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	spiced	spice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | would | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | I *not said here* | thee |  | my mother's house |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme into house=Destination |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | might | thou |  | me |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **cause** | would | I | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | thee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of wine=Source |
| 6 | **spice** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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אֶנְהָֽגֲךָ֗ אֲבִֽיאֲךָ֛ אֶל־בֵּ֥ית אִמִּ֖י תְּלַמְּדֵ֑נִי אַשְׁקְךָ֙ מִיַּ֣יִן הָרֶ֔קַח מֵעֲסִ֖יס רִמֹּנִֽי׃

[Song of Songs 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.2/)

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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:120` 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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