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title: Song of Songs 4:12 (JPS 1917) — A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountai… · tree and pragmatics
description: A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Who acts: garden, spring. Song of Songs 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 4:12 · JPS 1917

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A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

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**Who acts:** garden, spring · **What happens:** shut up, be, seal · **To what, where:** garden, sister, fountain

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This is Song of Songs 4:12 · 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 (garden, spring), 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:58
# text = A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | participle |  | a garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a garden | my sister and a spring and a fountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shut up** | past | a spring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seal** | participle |  | a fountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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גַּ֥ן ׀ נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם׃

[Song of Songs 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/)

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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:58` 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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