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title: Ruth 4:22 (JPS 1917) — and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David. · tree and pragmatics
description: and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David. Who acts: Obed, Jesse. Ruth 4:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth 4:22 · JPS 1917

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and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.

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**Who acts:** Obed, Jesse · **What happens:** beget · **To what, where:** Jesse, David

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This is Ruth 4:22 · 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 (Obed, Jesse), 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:93
# text = and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Obed	Obed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beget** | past | Obed | Jesse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesse=Patient |
| 2 | **beget** | past | Jesse | David |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent david=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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וְעֹבֵד֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־יִשָׁ֔י וְיִשַׁ֖י הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־דָּוִֽד׃

[Ruth 4:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.22/)

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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:93` 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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