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title: Ruth 4:6 (JPS 1917) — And the near kinsman said: 'I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the near kinsman said: 'I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance; take thou my right of redemption on thee; for I cannot redeem it.' — Who acts: near kinsman, I, thou, mine. Ruth 4:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 4:6 · JPS 1917

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And the near kinsman said: 'I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance; take thou my right of redemption on thee; for I cannot redeem it.' —

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**Who acts:** near kinsman, I, thou, mine · **What happens:** say, not redeem, mar, take, inherit · **To what, where:** name, own inheritance, right, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Ruth 4:6 · 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 (near kinsman, I, thou, mine), 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:76
# text = And the near kinsman said: 'I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance; take thou my right of redemption on thee; for I cannot redeem it.' —
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	mar	mar	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	redemption	redemption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
40	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the near kinsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **redeem** | can | I | name |  |  |  | for myself | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **mar** | present | I | mine own inheritance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | thou | my right of redemption |  | thee |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent right=Theme on thou=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **redeem** | can | I | name |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **inherit** |  | mine |  |  |  |  |  | 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 הַגֹּאֵ֗ל לֹ֤א אוּכַל֙ לִגְאָל־לִ֔י פֶּן־אַשְׁחִ֖ית אֶת־נַחֲלָתִ֑י גְּאַל־לְךָ֤ אַתָּה֙ אֶת־גְּאֻלָּתִ֔י כִּ֥י לֹא־אוּכַ֖ל לִגְאֹֽל׃

[Ruth 4:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.6/)

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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:76` 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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