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title: Song of Songs 6:8 (JPS 1917) — There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens w… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number. Who acts: threescore queens. Song of Songs 6:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Song of Songs 6:8 · JPS 1917

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There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.

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**Who acts:** threescore queens · **What happens:** be

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This is Song of Songs 6:8 · 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 (threescore queens), 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:95
# text = There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	_	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	threescore	threescore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	fourscore	fourscore	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	concubines	concubine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | threescore queens and fourscore concubines and maidens without number |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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שִׁשִּׁ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ מְּלָכ֔וֹת וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים פִּֽילַגְשִׁ֑ים וַעֲלָמ֖וֹת אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

[Song of Songs 6:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.8/)

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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:95` 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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