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title: Ruth 3:17 (JPS 1917) — And she said: 'These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she said: 'These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me: Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.' Who acts: woman, man. Ruth 3:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 3:17 · JPS 1917

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And she said: 'These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me: Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.'

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**Who acts:** woman, man · **What happens:** say, give, not go, measure · **To what, where:** six measures, me, barley · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 3:17 · 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, 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:68
# text = And she said: 'These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me: Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
6	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
30	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | past | man | this six measures of barley | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient measure=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  | me |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to i=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto thy mother in law; empty *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **measure** |  |  | barley |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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וַתֹּ֕אמֶר שֵׁשׁ־הַשְּׂעֹרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה נָ֣תַן לִ֑י כִּ֚י אָמַ֣ר אֵלַ֔י אַל־תָּב֥וֹאִי רֵיקָ֖ם אֶל־חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ׃

[Ruth 3:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.3.17/)

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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:68` 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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