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title: Song of Songs 6:1 (JPS 1917) — 'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Who acts: beloved. Song of Songs 6:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 6:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women?

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**Who acts:** beloved · **What happens:** go

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This is Song of Songs 6:1 · 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 (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:86
# text = 'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
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	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	vocative	_	_
10	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **go** | present · passive | thy beloved |  |  |  |  | thou *vocative*; whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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אָ֚נָה הָלַ֣ךְ דּוֹדֵ֔ךְ הַיָּפָ֖ה בַּנָּשִׁ֑ים אָ֚נָה פָּנָ֣ה דוֹדֵ֔ךְ וּנְבַקְשֶׁ֖נּוּ עִמָּֽךְ׃

[Song of Songs 6:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **'Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women?**
2. [Whither hath thy beloved turned him, that we may seek him with thee?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.87/)

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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:86` 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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