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title: Ruth 1:17 (JPS 1917) — where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD d… · tree and pragmatics
description: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.' Who acts: thou, I, LORD, aught. Ruth 1:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 1:17 · JPS 1917

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where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.'

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**Who acts:** thou, I, LORD, aught · **What happens:** die, bury, do, part · **To what, where:** I, me, thee

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This is Ruth 1:17 · 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, I, LORD, aught), 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:19
# text = where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.'
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	diest	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	aught	aught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	part	part	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **die** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **bury** | future · passive |  | I |  | there |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | the LORD |  | me |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **part** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | aught but death | thee |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |

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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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בַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּמ֙וּתִי֙ אָמ֔וּת וְשָׁ֖ם אֶקָּבֵ֑ר כֹּה֩ יַעֲשֶׂ֨ה יְהוָ֥ה לִי֙ וְכֹ֣ה יֹסִ֔יף כִּ֣י הַמָּ֔וֶת יַפְרִ֖יד בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵינֵֽךְ׃

[Ruth 1:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.17/)

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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:19` 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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