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title: Ruth 4:5 (JPS 1917) — Then said Boaz: 'What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Boaz: 'What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi — hast thou also bought of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance?' Who acts: Boaz, thou, Naomi. Ruth 4:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Ruth 4:5 · JPS 1917

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Then said Boaz: 'What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi — hast thou also bought of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance?'

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**Who acts:** Boaz, thou, Naomi · **What happens:** say, buy, raise up, name, inherit · **To what, where:** field, name, inheritance, dead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 4:5 · 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 (Boaz, thou, 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:75
# text = Then said Boaz: 'What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi — hast thou also bought of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance?'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Boaz	Boaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	buyest	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Moabitess	Moabitess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dead	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	dead	dead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
44	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- 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 | Boaz |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** | present | thou | the field of the hand of Naomi |  |  | day |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | of Ruth | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **raise up** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | the name of the dead |  | Naomi's inheritance |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme upon inheritance=Destination |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | the dead |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **inherit** |  | Naomi |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר בֹּ֔עַז בְּיוֹם־קְנוֹתְךָ֥ הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה מִיַּ֣ד נָעֳמִ֑י וּ֠מֵאֵת ר֣וּת הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֤ה אֵֽשֶׁת־הַמֵּת֙ קָנִ֔יתָה לְהָקִ֥ים שֵׁם־הַמֵּ֖ת עַל־נַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃

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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:75` 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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