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title: Song of Songs 5:7 (JPS 1917) — The watchmen that go about the city found me, they smote me, they wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The watchmen that go about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me. Who acts: watchmen, keepers. Song of Songs 5:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 5:7 · JPS 1917

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The watchmen that go about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.

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**Who acts:** watchmen, keepers · **What happens:** go, find, smite, wound, take away · **To what, where:** me, mantle

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This is Song of Songs 5:7 · 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 (watchmen, keepers), 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:74
# text = The watchmen that go about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	away	away	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the watchmen |  |  |  |  | about the city | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about city=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | the watchmen | me |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 3 | **smite** | past | watchmen *= watchman* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wound** | past | watchmen *= watchman* | me |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 5 | **take away** | past | the keepers of the walls | my mantle |  |  |  | from me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |

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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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מְצָאֻ֧נִי הַשֹּׁמְרִ֛ים הַסֹּבְבִ֥ים בָּעִ֖יר הִכּ֣וּנִי פְצָע֑וּנִי נָשְׂא֤וּ אֶת־רְדִידִי֙ מֵֽעָלַ֔י שֹׁמְרֵ֖י הַחֹמֽוֹת׃

[Song of Songs 5:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.7/)

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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:74` 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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