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title: Ruth 2:10 (JPS 1917) — Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said un… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: 'Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?' Who acts: Boaz, I, thou, thy. Ruth 2:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 2:10 · JPS 1917

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Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: 'Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?'

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**Who acts:** Boaz, I, thou, thy · **What happens:** fall, bow down, say, find, take, see · **To what, where:** face, favour, sight, cognizance, foreigner, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 2:10 · 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, I, thou, thy), 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:36
# text = Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: 'Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
25	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nsubj	_	_
32	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
34	cognizance	cognizance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	ccomp	_	_
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Boaz |  |  | Boaz's face | then |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
| 2 | **bow down** | past | Boaz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ground; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Boaz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **find** | present · perfect | I | favour |  | thy sight |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | should | thou | cognizance of me |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cognizance=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | present | I | a foreigner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sight** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **cognize** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom cognizance «cognition transitive»: of=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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וַתִּפֹּל֙ עַל־פָּנֶ֔יהָ וַתִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ אָ֑רְצָה וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו מַדּוּעַ֩ מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ לְהַכִּירֵ֔נִי וְאָּנֹכִ֖ינָכְרִיָּֽה׃

[Ruth 2:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.10/)

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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:36` of Mova's parse database.

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