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title: Song of Songs 5:16 (JPS 1917) — His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. · tree and pragmatics
description: His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely. Who acts: mouth, beloved. Song of Songs 5:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 5:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely.

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**Who acts:** mouth, beloved · **What happens:** be

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This is Song of Songs 5:16 · 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 (mouth, beloved), 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:84
# text = His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | beloved's mouth |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | beloved |  |  |  |  | altogether, lovely *property* | 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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חִכּוֹ֙ מַֽמְתַקִּ֔ים וְכֻלּ֖וֹ מַחֲּמַדִּ֑יםזֶ֤ה דוֹדִי֙ וְזֶ֣ה רֵעִ֔י בְּנ֖וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

[Song of Songs 5:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is altogether lovely.**
2. [This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.85/)

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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:84` 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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