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title: Ruth 2:15 (JPS 1917) — And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying: 'Let her glean even among the sheaves, and put her not to shame. Who acts: Boaz. Ruth 2:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 2:15 · JPS 1917

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And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying: 'Let her glean even among the sheaves, and put her not to shame.

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**Who acts:** Boaz · **What happens:** rise up, glean, command, say, let, not put · **To what, where:** Boaz, young men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 2:15 · 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), 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:41
# text = And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying: 'Let her glean even among the sheaves, and put her not to shame.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	glean	glean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Boaz	Boaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	glean	glean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **rise up** | past · passive |  | Boaz |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **glean** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **command** | past | Boaz | LORD's young men |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Boaz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | Boaz |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **glean** | infinitive | Boaz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the sheaves | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **put** | infinitive |  |  | Boaz |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |

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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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וַתָּ֖קָם לְלַקֵּ֑ט וַיְצַו֩ בֹּ֨עַז אֶת־נְעָרָ֜יו לֵאמֹ֗ר גַּ֣ם בֵּ֧ין הָֽעֳמָרִ֛ים תְּלַקֵּ֖ט וְלֹ֥א תַכְלִימֽוּהָ׃

[Ruth 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.15/)

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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:41` 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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