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title: Ruth 2:4 (JPS 1917) — And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers: '… · tree and pragmatics
description: And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers: 'The LORD be with you.' And they answered him: 'The LORD bless thee.' Who acts: Boaz, LORD, reapers. Ruth 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 2:4 · JPS 1917

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And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers: 'The LORD be with you.' And they answered him: 'The LORD bless thee.'

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**Who acts:** Boaz, LORD, reapers · **What happens:** come, say, be, answer, bless · **To what, where:** Beth lehem, hap, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 2:4 · 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 (Boaz, LORD, reapers), 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:29
# text = And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers: 'The LORD be with you.' And they answered him: 'The LORD bless thee.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Boaz	Boaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	lehem	lehem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	reapers	reaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
35	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	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 | **come** | past | Boaz |  |  | Beth lehem |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lehem=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Boaz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the reapers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | the LORD |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | reapers *= reaper* |  | hap |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bless** | infinitive | the LORD | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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וְהִנֵּה־בֹ֗עַז בָּ֚א מִבֵּ֣ית לֶ֔חֶם בֵּ֣ית לֶ֔חֶם וַיֹּ֥אמֶר לַקּוֹצְרִ֖ים יְהוָ֣ה עִמָּכֶ֑ם וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ ל֖וֹ יְבָרֶכְךָ֥ יְהוָֽה׃

[Ruth 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.4/)

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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:29` 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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