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title: Ruth 3:1 (JPS 1917) — And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her: 'My daughter, shall I not… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her: 'My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? Who acts: Naomi, I, rest. Ruth 3:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 3:1 · JPS 1917

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And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her: 'My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

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**Who acts:** Naomi, I, rest · **What happens:** say, not seek, be · **To what, where:** rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 3:1 · 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, I, rest), 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:50
# text = And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her: 'My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	appos	_	_
4	mother	mother-in-law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	obl	_	_
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Naomi |  |  |  |  | unto her *= she* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **seek** | shall | I | rest |  |  |  | for thee; My daughter *vocative* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent rest=Location for thou=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | may | rest |  |  |  |  | with thee; well *property* | 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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וַתֹּ֥אמֶר לָ֖הּ נָעֳמִ֣י חֲמוֹתָ֑הּ בִּתִּ֞י הֲלֹ֧א אֲבַקֶּשׁ־לָ֛ךְ מָנ֖וֹחַ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִֽיטַב־לָֽךְ׃

[Ruth 3:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.1/)

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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:50` 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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