Proverbs 31:1-3

Phrase									Distinctive Cantillation			Translation									Comment
									Mark	Level	Nesting Level (Rule)
									Atnach	king	1 (1)	1 The words of Lemuel the king									216 + 107 + 90 = 413
									Revia Mugrash	king	2 (2)		burden (/prophecy?)								341
									Sof Pasuq	emporer	0 (3)			which his mother disciplined him							501 + 680 + 47 = 1228
																					Verse 1 total 1982
									Dechi	duke	2 (1)	2 What my son									45 + 212 = 257
									Atnach	king	1 (1)			and what, son of my belly/womb							51 + 202 + 71 = 324
									Sof Pasuq	emporer	0 (3)		and what, son of my vows								51 + 202 + 264 = 517
																					Verse 2 total 1098
									Atnach	king	1 (1)	3 Do not give your strength to women									31 + 850 + 330 + 52 = 1263
									Revia Mugrash	king	2 (2)		nor your ways								244
									Sof Pasuq	emporer	0 (3)			to that which destroys kings							484 + 150 = 634
																					Verse 3 total 2141

Cantillation mark information

1. Table of marks
2. Explanation of mark sturctures

Nesting rules

The real nesting levels (0 for top-level, 1 for halves of top-level, 2 for quarters etc.) of the marks can be recovered from the ranks:

1. For an emperor (or king, or duke, or officer) that has no mark of the same or a higher rank ahead of it, the nesting level is 0 (or 1, or 2, or 3, resp.).
2. For a mark that is lower in rank than its predecessor by k ranks or equal in rank (that is: lower by k=0 ranks), the nesting level is k+1 more than the nesting level of the predecessor.
3. For a mark that is higher in rank than its predecessor, the nesting level is the same as it would have been, had all marks of lower rank been removed.

The indentation of each line reflected the nesting level of the mark that terminated the preceding line.