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title: Ruth 3:12 (JPS 1917) — And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there is a kins… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. Who acts: I, kinsman. Ruth 3:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 3:12 · JPS 1917

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And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

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**Who acts:** I, kinsman · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** near kinsman

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This is Ruth 3:12 · 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 (I, kinsman), 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:62
# text = And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	howbeit	howbeit	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	I.	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
```

## 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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | now | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | a near kinsman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | a kinsman |  |  | there |  | howbeit *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְעַתָּה֙ כִּ֣י אָמְנָ֔ם כִּ֥י גֹאֵ֖ל אָנֹ֑כִי וְגַ֛ם יֵ֥שׁ גֹּאֵ֖ל קָר֥וֹב מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

[Ruth 3:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.12/)

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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:62` 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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