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title: Song of Songs 6:5 (JPS 1917) — Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me. · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Who acts: you, eyes. Song of Songs 6:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 6:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.

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**Who acts:** you, eyes · **What happens:** turn away, overcome · **To what, where:** eyes, me

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This is Song of Songs 6:5 · 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 (you, 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:91
# text = Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | imperative | you *not said here* | thine eyes |  |  |  | from me | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from i=Source |
| 2 | **overcome** | present · perfect | eyes *= eye* | me |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=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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הָסֵ֤בִּי עֵינַ֙יִךְ֙ מִנֶּגְדִּ֔י שֶׁ֥הֵ֖םהִרְהִיבֻ֑נִי שַׂעְרֵךְ֙ כְּעֵ֣דֶר הָֽעִזִּ֔ים שֶׁגָּלְשׁ֖וּ מִן־הַגִּלְעָֽד׃

[Song of Songs 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.5/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.**
2. [Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.92/)

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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:91` 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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