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title: Ruth was a young widow from Moab, a foreign land, who would not leav… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruth was a young widow from Moab, a foreign land, who would not leave her mother-in-law Naomi: «Where you go I will go, and your people will be my people». Who acts: Ruth, foreign land, you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary sch
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# Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 0

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Ruth was a young widow from Moab, a foreign land, who would not leave her mother-in-law Naomi: «Where you go I will go, and your people will be my people».

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**Who acts:** Ruth, foreign land, you, I, people · **What happens:** be, not leave, go · **To what, where:** young widow, Moab, mother, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ruth, foreign land, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:0
# text = Ruth was a young widow from Moab, a foreign land, who would not leave her mother-in-law Naomi: «Where you go I will go, and your people will be my people».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
26	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ruth | a young widow |  | Moab |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | would | a foreign land | Ruth's mother |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | your people | my people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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