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title: Song of Songs 5:12 (JPS 1917) — His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks; washed with milk, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set. Who acts: eyes. Song of Songs 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 5:12 · JPS 1917

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His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** be, wash, set · **To what, where:** water brooks, doves

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This is Song of Songs 5:12 · 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 (eyes), 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:80
# text = His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks; washed with milk, and fitly set.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	fitly	fitly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | beloved's eyes |  |  | the water brooks |  | like doves | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash** | participle |  | doves *not said here* |  |  |  | with milk | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with milk=Instrument |
| 3 | **set** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fitly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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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עֵינָ֕יו כְּיוֹנִ֖ים עַל־אֲפִ֣יקֵי מָ֑יִם רֹֽחֲצוֹת֙ בֶּֽחָלָ֔ב יֹשְׁב֖וֹת עַל־מִלֵּֽאת׃

[Song of Songs 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.12/)

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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:80` 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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