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title: Song of Songs 3:3 (JPS 1917) — The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my so… · tree and pragmatics
description: The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?' Who acts: watchmen, ye, soul. Song of Songs 3:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 3:3 · JPS 1917

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The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?'

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**Who acts:** watchmen, ye, soul · **What happens:** go, find, see, love · **To what, where:** me, soul

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This is Song of Songs 3:3 · 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 (watchmen, ye, soul), 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:38
# text = The watchmen that go about the city found me: 'Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	loveth	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the watchmen |  |  |  |  | about the city | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about city=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | the watchmen | me |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past | ye | soul |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** | present | my soul |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=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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מְצָא֙וּנִי֙ הַשֹּׁ֣מְרִ֔ים הַסֹּבְבִ֖ים בָּעִ֑יר אֵ֛ת שֶׁאָהֲבָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י רְאִיתֶֽם׃

[Song of Songs 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.3/)

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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:38` 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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