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title: Song of Songs 4:16 (JPS 1917) — Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Who acts: you, spices. Song of Songs 4:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 4:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.

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**Who acts:** you, spices · **What happens:** awake, come, blow, flow out

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This is Song of Songs 4:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, spices), 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:62
# text = Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
1	Awake	awake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
4	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | north wind *vocative* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south  thou *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon my garden | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **flow out** | may | the spices |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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ע֤וּרִי צָפוֹן֙ וּב֣וֹאִי תֵימָ֔ן הָפִ֥יחִי גַנִּ֖י יִזְּל֣וּ בְשָׂמָ֑יו יָבֹ֤א דוֹדִי֙ לְגַנּ֔וֹ וְיֹאכַ֖ל פְּרִ֥י מְגָדָֽיו׃

[Song of Songs 4:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.**
2. [Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.63/)

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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:62` 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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