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title: Song of Songs 1:6 (JPS 1917) — Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun hath tanned me; my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun hath tanned me; my mother's sons were incensed against me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.' Who acts: you, I, sun, sons. Song of Songs 1:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Song of Songs 1:6 · JPS 1917

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Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun hath tanned me; my mother's sons were incensed against me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.'

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**Who acts:** you, I, sun, sons · **What happens:** not look, be, tan, incense, make, not keep · **To what, where:** me, sons, own vineyard

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This is Song of Songs 1:6 · 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, I, sun, sons), 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:5
# text = Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun hath tanned me; my mother's sons were incensed against me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.'
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tanned	tan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	incensed	incense	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
39	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon i=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | swarthy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tan** | present · perfect | the sun | me |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **incense** | past · passive |  | my mother's sons |  |  |  | against me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **make** | past | sons *= son* | me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 6 | **not** **keep** | present · perfect | I | mine own vineyard |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vineyard=Theme |

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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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אַל־תִּרְא֙וּנִי֙ שֶׁאֲנִ֣י שְׁחַרְחֹ֔רֶת שֶׁשֱּׁזָפַ֖תְנִי הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ בְּנֵ֧י אִמִּ֣י נִֽחֲרוּ־בִ֗י שָׂמֻ֙נִי֙ נֹטֵרָ֣ה אֶת־הַכְּרָמִ֔ים כַּרְמִ֥י שֶׁלִּ֖י לֹ֥א נָטָֽרְתִּי׃

[Song of Songs 1:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.1.6/)

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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:5` of Mova's parse database.

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