Ruth 3:8 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was startled, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

Who acts: woman · What happens: come, pass, startle, turn, lie · To what, where: end, man, feet

This is Ruth 3:8 · 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 (woman), 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	at	at	ADP	_	7 midnight	case
7	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 startled	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 startled	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 startled	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 startled	aux:pass
13	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	csubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turned	cc
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 startled	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 turned	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lay	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lay	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 behold	punct
21	behold	behold	INTJ	_	25 lay	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 behold	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 startled	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lay	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past		end			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive				midnight	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	startle	past · passive		the man			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	turn	past		man			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	lie	past	a woman		man's feet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location

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

וַיְהִי֙ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַלַּ֔יְלָה וַיֶּחֱרַ֥ד הָאִ֖ישׁ וַיִּלָּפֵ֑ת וְהִנֵּ֣ה אִשָּׁ֔ה שֹׁכֶ֖בֶת מַרְגְּלֹתָֽיו׃

Ruth 3:8: 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:58 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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