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title: Song of Songs 8:5 (JPS 1917) — Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth. Who acts: I, mother. Song of Songs 8:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 8:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth.

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**Who acts:** I, mother · **What happens:** awaken, be, bring · **To what, where:** thee, apple tree, travail, Jerusalem

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This is Song of Songs 8:5 · 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, mother), 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:124
# text = Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	EX	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	travail	travail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	root	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obj	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **awaken** | past | I | thee |  | the apple tree |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | thy mother |  |  | travail; there |  | with thee | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | Jerusalem |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past |  | thee |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |

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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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מִ֣י זֹ֗את עֹלָה֙ מִן־הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר מִתְרַפֶּ֖קֶת עַל־דּוֹדָ֑הּ תַּ֤חַת הַתַּפּ֙וּחַ֙ עֽוֹרַרְתִּ֔יךָ שָׁ֚מָּה חִבְּלַ֣תְךָ אִמֶּ֔ךָ שָׁ֖מָּה חִבְּלָ֥ה יְלָדַֽתְךָ׃

[Song of Songs 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.123/)
2. **Under the apple-tree I awakened thee; there thy mother was in travail with thee; there was she in travail and brought thee forth.**

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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:124` 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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