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title: Song of Songs 8:13 (JPS 1917) — Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy vo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice: 'Cause me to hear it.' Who acts: companions, me. Song of Songs 8:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 8:13 · JPS 1917

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Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice: 'Cause me to hear it.'

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**Who acts:** companions, me · **What happens:** dwell, hearken, cause, hear · **To what, where:** gardens, me, vineyard

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This is Song of Songs 8:13 · 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 (companions, me), 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:132
# text = Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice: 'Cause me to hear it.'
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	vocative	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dwellest	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hearken	hearken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	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 | **dwell** | present |  |  |  | the gardens |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
| 2 | **hearken** | present | the companions |  |  |  |  | for thy voice; Thou *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | vineyard |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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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הַיוֹשֶׁ֣בֶתבַּגַּנִּ֗ים חֲבֵרִ֛ים מַקְשִׁיבִ֥ים לְקוֹלֵ֖ךְ הַשְׁמִיעִֽינִי׃

[Song of Songs 8:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.8.13/)

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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:132` 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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