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title: Song of Songs 4:4 (JPS 1917) — Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon there hang a thousand shields, all the armour of the mighty men. Who acts: neck. Song of Songs 4:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 4:4 · JPS 1917

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Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon there hang a thousand shields, all the armour of the mighty men.

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**Who acts:** neck · **What happens:** be, build, hang · **To what, where:** tower, thousand shields

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This is Song of Songs 4:4 · 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 (neck), 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:50
# text = Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with turrets, whereon there hang a thousand shields, all the armour of the mighty men.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	builded	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	turrets	turret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	whereon	whereon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy neck |  |  |  |  | like the tower; of David | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | the tower *not said here* |  |  |  | with turrets | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with turret=Source |
| 3 | **hang** | present |  | thousand shields |  | there |  | whereon *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient |

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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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כְּמִגְדַּ֤ל דָּוִיד֙ צַוָּארֵ֔ךְ בָּנ֖וּי לְתַלְפִּיּ֑וֹת אֶ֤לֶף הַמָּגֵן֙ תָּל֣וּי עָלָ֔יו כֹּ֖ל שִׁלְטֵ֥י הַגִּבּוֹרִֽים׃

[Song of Songs 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.4/)

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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:50` 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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