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title: Song of Songs 5:9 (JPS 1917) — 'What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? Song of Songs 5:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 5:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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'What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women?

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** beloved

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This is Song of Songs 5:9 · 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: 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:76
# text = 'What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	beloved	beloved	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	vocative	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | thy beloved |  |  |  | than another beloved; fairest *vocative* | tree rules |

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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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מַה־דּוֹדֵ֣ךְ מִדּ֔וֹד הַיָּפָ֖ה בַּנָּשִׁ֑ים מַה־דּוֹדֵ֣ךְ מִדּ֔וֹד שֶׁכָּ֖כָה הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽנוּ׃

[Song of Songs 5:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **'What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women?**
2. [What is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so adjure us?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.77/)

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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:76` 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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