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title: Ruth 2:2 (JPS 1917) — And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi: 'Let me now go to the field,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi: 'Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find favour.' And she said unto her: 'Go, my daughter.' Who acts: Ruth, me, I, Naomi. Ruth 2:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Ruth 2:2 · JPS 1917

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And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi: 'Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find favour.' And she said unto her: 'Go, my daughter.'

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**Who acts:** Ruth, me, I, Naomi · **What happens:** say, let, go, glean, find · **To what, where:** me, field, favour, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 2:2 · 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 (Ruth, me, I, Naomi), 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:27
# text = And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi: 'Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find favour.' And she said unto her: 'Go, my daughter.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Moabitess	Moabitess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	glean	glean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	vocative	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ruth |  |  |  |  | unto Naomi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | the field | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **glean** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  | after Ruth | among the ears of corn | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | shall | I | favour |  | sight |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Naomi |  |  |  |  | unto Boaz | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | my daughter *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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וַתֹּאמֶר֩ ר֨וּת הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֜ה אֶֽל־נָעֳמִ֗י אֵֽלְכָה־נָּ֤א הַשָּׂדֶה֙ וַאֲלַקֳטָּ֣הבַשִׁבֳּלִ֔יםאַחַ֕ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶמְצָא־חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינָ֑יו וַתֹּ֥אמֶר לָ֖הּ לְכִ֥י בִתִּֽי׃

[Ruth 2:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.2/)

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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:27` 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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