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title: Song of Songs 1:3 (JPS 1917) — Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment pou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the maidens love thee. Who acts: ointments, name, maidens, thy. Song of Songs 1:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 1:3 · JPS 1917

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Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the maidens love thee.

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**Who acts:** ointments, name, maidens, thy · **What happens:** have, be, pour, love, name · **To what, where:** goodly fragrance, ointment, thee

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This is Song of Songs 1:3 · 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 (ointments, name, maidens, thy), 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:2
# text = Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; thy name is as ointment poured forth; therefore do the maidens love thee.
1	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ointments	ointment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Thine ointments | a goodly fragrance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | thy name |  |  |  |  | as ointment | tree rules |
| 3 | **pour** | participle |  | ointment *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **love** | present · do-support | the maidens | thee |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |
| 5 | **name** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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לְרֵ֙יחַ֙ שְׁמָנֶ֣יךָ טוֹבִ֔ים שֶׁ֖מֶן תּוּרַ֣ק שְׁמֶ֑ךָ עַל־כֵּ֖ן עֲלָמ֥וֹת אֲהֵבֽוּךָ׃

[Song of Songs 1:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.3/)

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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:2` 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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