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title: Song of Songs 6:4 (JPS 1917) — Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. Who acts: Thou, my. Song of Songs 6:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 6:4 · JPS 1917

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Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

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**Who acts:** Thou, my · **What happens:** be, love

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This is Song of Songs 6:4 · 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 (Thou, my), 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:90
# text = Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tirzah	Tirzah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	banners	banner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | Thou |  |  |  |  | as Tirzah; my love *vocative*; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as Jerusalem | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a army with banners | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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יָפָ֨ה אַ֤תְּ רַעְיָתִי֙ כְּתִרְצָ֔ה נָאוָ֖ה כִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם אֲיֻמָּ֖ה כַּנִּדְגָּלֽוֹת׃

[Song of Songs 6:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.4/)

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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:90` 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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