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title: Song of Songs 8:6 (JPS 1917) — Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love… · tree and pragmatics
description: Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD. Who acts: you, love, jealousy, flashes. Song of Songs 8:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Song of Songs 8:6 · JPS 1917

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Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.

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**Who acts:** you, love, jealousy, flashes, LORD · **What happens:** set, be, flame · **To what, where:** me, flashes

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This is Song of Songs 8:6 · 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 (you, love, jealousy, flashes), 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:125
# text = Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.
1	Set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
33	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	32	nmod	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	very	very	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | as a seal upon thy heart; as a seal upon thine arm | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | love |  |  |  |  | as death; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | jealousy |  |  |  |  | as the grave; cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the flashes | flashes |  |  |  | of fire | tree rules |
| 5 | **flame** |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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שִׂימֵ֨נִי כַֽחוֹתָ֜ם עַל־לִבֶּ֗ךָ כַּֽחוֹתָם֙ עַל־זְרוֹעֶ֔ךָ כִּֽי־עַזָּ֤ה כַמָּ֙וֶת֙ אַהֲבָ֔ה קָשָׁ֥ה כִשְׁא֖וֹל קִנְאָ֑ה רְשָׁפֶ֕יהָ רִשְׁפֵּ֕י אֵ֖שׁ שַׁלְהֶ֥בֶתְ יָֽה׃

[Song of Songs 8:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.6/)

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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:125` 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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