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title: Ruth 3:16 (JPS 1917) — And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said: 'Who art thou, my… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said: 'Who art thou, my daughter?' And she told her all that the man had done to her. Who acts: woman, thou, man. Ruth 3:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 3:16 · JPS 1917

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And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said: 'Who art thou, my daughter?' And she told her all that the man had done to her.

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**Who acts:** woman, thou, man · **What happens:** come, say, be, tell, do · **To what, where:** all, mother, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 3:16 · 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 (woman, thou, man), 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:67
# text = And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said: 'Who art thou, my daughter?' And she told her all that the man had done to her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
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	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	ccomp	_	_
18	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
24	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | to woman's mother in law | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | my daughter *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | woman | all | mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient all=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | the man |  | woman |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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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וַתָּבוֹא֙ אֶל־חֲמוֹתָ֔הּ וַתֹּ֖אמֶר מִי־אַ֣תְּ בִּתִּ֑י וַתַּ֨גֶּד־לָ֔הּ אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָֽשָׂה־לָ֖הּ הָאִֽישׁ׃

[Ruth 3:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.16/)

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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:67` 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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