---
title: Ruth 2:23 (JPS 1917) — So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of bar… · tree and pragmatics
description: So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law. Who acts: Naomi. Ruth 2:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.49/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Ruth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT/2/) / [2:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.23/) / JPS 1

# Ruth 2:23 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Naomi · **What happens:** keep, glean, dwell

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Ruth 2:23 · 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), 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:49
# text = So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.
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	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Boaz	Boaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	glean	glean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
32	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Naomi |  |  |  |  | by the maidens of Boaz; fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by maiden=Location |
| 2 | **glean** | to-infinitive | Naomi *not said here* |  |  |  | unto the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest |  | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | Naomi |  |  |  |  | with Naomi's mother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וַתִּדְבַּ֞ק בְּנַעֲר֥וֹת בֹּ֙עַז֙ לְלַקֵּ֔ט עַד־כְּל֥וֹת קְצִֽיר־הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖ים וּקְצִ֣יר הַֽחִטִּ֑ים וַתֵּ֖שֶׁב אֶת־חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃

[Ruth 2:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.23/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:RUT:49` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Ruth 2:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.48/)
- next →: [Ruth 3:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.50/)
- ↑ back to [Ruth 2:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.23/)