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title: Song of Songs 2:15 (JPS 1917) — 'Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.' Who acts: you, foxes, vineyards. Song of Songs 2:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 2:15 · JPS 1917

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'Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.'

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**Who acts:** you, foxes, vineyards · **What happens:** take, spoil, be · **To what, where:** foxes, us, vineyards, blossom

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This is Song of Songs 2:15 · 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, foxes, vineyards), 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:33
# text = 'Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spoil	spoil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the foxes | us |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Theme fox=Destination |
| 2 | **spoil** | present | the foxes | the vineyards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | our vineyards |  |  | blossom |  |  | tree rules |

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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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אֶֽחֱזוּ־לָ֙נוּ֙ שֽׁוּעָלִ֔ים שֽׁוּעָלִ֥ים קְטַנִּ֖ים מְחַבְּלִ֣ים כְּרָמִ֑ים וּכְרָמֵ֖ינוּ סְמָדַֽר׃

[Song of Songs 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.15/)

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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:33` 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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