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title: Song of Songs 4:11 (JPS 1917) — Thy lips, O my bride, drop honey — honey and milk are under thy tong… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy lips, O my bride, drop honey — honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. Who acts: lips, honey, smell, garments. Song of Songs 4:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 4:11 · JPS 1917

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Thy lips, O my bride, drop honey — honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

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**Who acts:** lips, honey, smell, garments · **What happens:** drop, be, smell · **To what, where:** honey, tongue

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This is Song of Songs 4:11 · 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 (lips, honey, smell, garments), 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:57
# text = Thy lips, O my bride, drop honey — honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **drop** | present | Thy lips | honey |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | honey and milk |  |  | thy tongue |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the smell of thy garments |  |  |  |  | like the smell; of Lebanon | tree rules |
| 4 | **smell** |  | thy garments |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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נֹ֛פֶת תִּטֹּ֥פְנָה שִׂפְתוֹתַ֖יִךְ כַּלָּ֑ה דְּבַ֤שׁ וְחָלָב֙ תַּ֣חַת לְשׁוֹנֵ֔ךְ וְרֵ֥יחַ שַׂלְמֹתַ֖יִךְ כְּרֵ֥יחַ לְבָנֽוֹן׃ס

[Song of Songs 4:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.11/)

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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:57` 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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