Ruth 1:11 · JPS 1917
And Naomi said: 'Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Who acts: Naomi, ye, I, daughters · What happens: say, turn back, go, have, be · To what, where: sons, womb, husbands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ruth 1:11 · 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 (Naomi, ye, I, daughters), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Naomi | Naomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Turn | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Turn | punct |
| 6 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 Turn | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughters | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Turn | vocative |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 go | advmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Turn | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Turn | parataxis |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 womb | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 womb | nmod:poss |
| 25 | womb | womb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sons | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 husbands | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 husbands | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 husbands | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 husbands | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 husbands | cop |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 32 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | advcl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Naomi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn back | infinitive | my daughters vocative | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | future | ye | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | sons | my womb | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||
| 5 | is a | may | daughters = daughter | your husbands | tree rules |
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
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר נָעֳמִי֙ שֹׁ֣בְנָה בְנֹתַ֔י לָ֥מָּה תֵלַ֖כְנָה עִמִּ֑י הַֽעֽוֹד־לִ֤י בָנִים֙ בְּֽמֵעַ֔י וְהָי֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם לַאֲנָשִֽׁים׃
Ruth 1:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:RUT:12 of Mova's parse database.
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