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title: Ruth 2:22 (JPS 1917) — And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law: 'It is good, my daught… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law: 'It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that thou be not met in any other field.' Who acts: Naomi, law, thou. Ruth 2:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 2:22 · JPS 1917

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And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law: 'It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that thou be not met in any other field.'

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**Who acts:** Naomi, law, thou · **What happens:** say, be, go out, not meet · **To what, where:** Ruth, thou, other field · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 2:22 · 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 (Naomi, law, thou), 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:48
# text = And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law: 'It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that thou be not met in any other field.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Naomi |  | Ruth |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ruth=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | law |  |  |  |  | my daughter *vocative*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | with Ruth's maidens; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maiden=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **not** **meet** | present · passive |  | thou |  | any other field |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |

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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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וַתֹּ֥אמֶר נָעֳמִ֖י אֶל־ר֣וּת כַּלָּתָ֑הּ ט֣וֹב בִּתִּ֗י כִּ֤י תֵֽצְאִי֙ עִם־נַ֣עֲרוֹתָ֔יו וְלֹ֥א יִפְגְּעוּ־בָ֖ךְ בְּשָׂדֶ֥ה אַחֵֽר׃

[Ruth 2:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.22/)

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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:48` 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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