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title: Song of Songs 4:2 (JPS 1917) — Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike, which are come… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike, which are come up from the washing; whereof all are paired, and none faileth among them. Who acts: teeth, none. Song of Songs 4:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 4:2 · JPS 1917

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Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike, which are come up from the washing; whereof all are paired, and none faileth among them.

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**Who acts:** teeth, none · **What happens:** be, shape, come up, pair, fail · **To what, where:** ewes, washing, all

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This is Song of Songs 4:2 · 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 (teeth, none), 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:48
# text = Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike, which are come up from the washing; whereof all are paired, and none faileth among them.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ewes	ewe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	paired	pair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
28	faileth	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy teeth |  |  |  |  | like a flock; of ewes | tree rules |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  | ewes *not said here* |  |  |  | alike, all *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **come up** | present · passive |  | ewes |  | the washing |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **pair** | present · passive |  | all |  |  |  | whereof *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **fail** | present | none |  |  |  |  | among teeth *= tooth* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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שִׁנַּ֙יִךְ֙ כְּעֵ֣דֶר הַקְּצוּב֔וֹת שֶׁעָל֖וּ מִן־הָרַחְצָ֑ה שֶׁכֻּלָּם֙ מַתְאִימ֔וֹת וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין בָּהֶֽם׃

[Song of Songs 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.2/)

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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:48` 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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