Ruth 1:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

AND IT came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land.

Who acts: judges, famine · What happens: come, pass, judge, be · To what, where: IT

This is Ruth 1:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (judges, famine), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	AND	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	IT	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pass	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 judged	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 judges	det
11	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 judged	nsubj
12	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 days	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
15	there	there	PRON	_	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 famine	det
18	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 famine	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past		IT			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive				day	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	judge	past	the judges				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	a famine in the land		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ שְׁפֹ֣ט הַשֹּׁפְטִ֔ים וַיְהִ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּאָ֑רֶץ וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ אִ֜ישׁ מִבֵּ֧ית לֶ֣חֶם בֵּ֧ית לֶ֣חֶם יְהוּדָ֗ה לָגוּר֙ בִּשְׂדֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב ה֥וּא וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ וּשְׁנֵ֥י בָנָֽיו׃

Ruth 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

This verse in JPS 1917:

AND IT came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land.
And a certain man of Beth-lehem in Judah went to sojourn in the field of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:RUT:0 of Mova's parse database.

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