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title: Ruth 1:11 (JPS 1917) — And Naomi said: 'Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? ha… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Naomi said: 'Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Who acts: Naomi, ye, I, daughters. Ruth 1:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 1:11 · JPS 1917

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And Naomi said: 'Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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**Who acts:** Naomi, ye, I, daughters · **What happens:** say, turn back, go, have, be · **To what, where:** sons, womb, husbands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 1:11 · 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 (Naomi, ye, I, daughters), 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:RUT:12
# text = And Naomi said: 'Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	vocative	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	advcl	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Naomi |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **turn back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | my daughters *vocative* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | future | ye |  |  |  |  | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | sons |  | my womb | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | may | daughters *= daughter* | your husbands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וַתֹּ֤אמֶר נָעֳמִי֙ שֹׁ֣בְנָה בְנֹתַ֔י לָ֥מָּה תֵלַ֖כְנָה עִמִּ֑י הַֽעֽוֹד־לִ֤י בָנִים֙ בְּֽמֵעַ֔י וְהָי֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם לַאֲנָשִֽׁים׃

[Ruth 1:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.11/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:RUT:12` 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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