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title: Ruth 2:17 (JPS 1917) — So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which… · tree and pragmatics
description: So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. Who acts: Boaz, even. Ruth 2:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 2:17 · JPS 1917

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So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

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**Who acts:** Boaz, even · **What happens:** glean, beat out, be · **To what, where:** field, that

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This is Ruth 2:17 · 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 (Boaz, even), 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:43
# text = So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gleaned	glean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	even	even	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gleaned	glean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ephah	ephah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glean** | past | Boaz |  |  | the field | until even |  | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beat out** | past | Boaz | that |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 3 | **glean** | past · perfect | Boaz |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | even |  |  |  |  | about a ephah; of barley | tree rules |

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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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וַתְּלַקֵּ֥ט בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה עַד־הָעָ֑רֶב וַתַּחְבֹּט֙ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־לִקֵּ֔טָה וַיְהִ֖י כְּאֵיפָ֥ה שְׂעֹרִֽים׃

[Ruth 2:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.17/)

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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:43` 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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