Ruth 1:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Turn back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: turn back, go, be, have · To what, where: way, husband
This is Ruth 1:12 · 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 (you, I), 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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughters | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Turn | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 old | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 old | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Turn | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 old | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 husband | det |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | imperative | you not said here | my daughters vocative | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | your way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
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
שֹׁ֤בְנָה בְנֹתַי֙ לֵ֔כְןָ כִּ֥י זָקַ֖נְתִּי מִהְי֣וֹת לְאִ֑ישׁ כִּ֤י אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ יֶשׁ־לִ֣י תִקְוָ֔ה גַּ֣ם הָיִ֤יתִי הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ לְאִ֔ישׁ וְגַ֖ם יָלַ֥דְתִּי בָנִֽים׃
Ruth 1:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Turn back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband.
- If I should say: I have hope, should I even have an husband to-night, and also bear sons;
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:RUT:13 of Mova's parse database.
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