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title: Song of Songs 2:7 (JPS 1917) — 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.' Who acts: I, ye, love. Song of Songs 2:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 2:7 · JPS 1917

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'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'

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**Who acts:** I, ye, love · **What happens:** adjure, not awaken, stir up, please · **To what, where:** you, love

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This is Song of Songs 2:7 · 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, ye, love), 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:24
# text = 'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	adjure	adjure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hinds	hind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
25	awaken	awaken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
29	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	please	please	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adjure** | present | I | you |  |  |  | by the gazelles and the hinds of the field | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **awaken** | present | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stir up** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | love |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition love=Patient |
| 4 | **please** | infinitive | love |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=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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הִשְׁבַּ֨עְתִּי אֶתְכֶ֜ם בְּנ֤וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ בִּצְבָא֔וֹת א֖וֹ בְּאַיְל֣וֹת הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה אִם־תָּעִ֧ירוּ ׀ וְֽאִם־תְּעֽוֹרְר֛וּ אֶת־הָאַהֲבָ֖ה עַ֥ד שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃ס

[Song of Songs 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.7/)

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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:24` 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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