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title: Ruth 4:12 (JPS 1917) — and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore unto J… · tree and pragmatics
description: and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.' Who acts: you, house, Tamar, LORD. Ruth 4:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 4:12 · JPS 1917

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and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.'

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**Who acts:** you, house, Tamar, LORD · **What happens:** let, be, bear, give · **To what, where:** house, Perez, seed, thee

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This is Ruth 4:12 · 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 (you, house, Tamar, LORD), 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:83
# text = and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Perez	Perez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	Tamar	Tamar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	iobj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy house |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | thy house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the house; of Perez | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | past | Tamar | Perez |  |  |  | unto Judah; of the seed | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | shall | the LORD | the seed | thee |  |  | of this young woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient which=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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וִיהִ֤י בֵֽיתְךָ֙ כְּבֵ֣ית פֶּ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יָלְדָ֥ה תָמָ֖ר לִֽיהוּדָ֑ה מִן־הַזֶּ֗רַע אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִתֵּ֤ן יְהוָה֙ לְךָ֔ מִן־הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה הַזֹּֽאת׃

[Ruth 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.12/)

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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:83` 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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