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title: In Israel Ruth gleaned, gathering the leftover grain in the field of… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: In Israel Ruth gleaned, gathering the leftover grain in the field of Boaz, as God's law let the poor do; Boaz protected her, gave her extra grain and later married her, and Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David. Who acts: Ruth, law, poor, Boaz. A sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and
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# Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 1

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In Israel Ruth gleaned, gathering the leftover grain in the field of Boaz, as God's law let the poor do; Boaz protected her, gave her extra grain and later married her, and Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David.

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**Who acts:** Ruth, law, poor, Boaz · **What happens:** glean, gather, let, do, protect, give · **To what, where:** Israel, leftover grain, field, Ruth, extra grain, great grandmother

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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, law, poor, Boaz), 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:1
# text = In Israel Ruth gleaned, gathering the leftover grain in the field of Boaz, as God's law let the poor do; Boaz protected her, gave her extra grain and later married her, and Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gleaned	glean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	leftover	leftover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Boaz	Boaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	Boaz	Boaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	xcomp	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod:desc	_	_
47	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26: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 | **glean** | past | Ruth |  |  | Israel |  |  | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gather** | gerund | Ruth *not said here* | the leftover grain |  | the field of Boaz |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | past | God's law |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | the poor |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **protect** | past | Boaz |  | Ruth |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **give** | past | Boaz *not said here* | extra grain | Ruth |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient grain=Theme |
| 7 | **marry** | past | Boaz *not said here* | Ruth |  |  |  | late *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 8 | **become** | past | Ruth | the great grandmother of David  King |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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