--- title: Song of Songs 5:2 (JPS 1917) — I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: 'Open to me… · tree and pragmatics description: I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.' Who acts: I, heart, beloved, my. 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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 (I, heart, beloved, my), 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:66 # text = I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.' 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 waketh wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Hark hark INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 beloved beloved NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 knocketh knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 undefiled undefiled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 49 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | present | I | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wake** | present | my heart | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **knock** | present | my beloved | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **open** | infinitive | my beloved *not said here* | | me | | | my sister and my love and my dove *vocative* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | | 5 | **fill** | present · passive | | my head | | | | with dew | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with dew=Instrument | | 6 | **love** | | my | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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} אֲנִ֥י יְשֵׁנָ֖ה וְלִבִּ֣י עֵ֑ר ק֣וֹל ׀ דּוֹדִ֣י דוֹפֵ֗ק פִּתְחִי־לִ֞י אֲחֹתִ֤י רַעְיָתִי֙ יוֹנָתִ֣י תַמָּתִ֔י שֶׁרֹּאשִׁי֙ נִמְלָא־טָ֔ל קְוֻּצּוֹתַ֖ירְסִ֥יסֵי לָֽיְלָה׃ [Song of Songs 5:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:SNG:66` 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. - ← previous: [Song of Songs 5:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.65/) - next →: [Song of Songs 5:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.67/) - ↑ back to [Song of Songs 5:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.2/)