Ruth 4:2 · JPS 1917

And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said: 'Sit ye down here.' And they sat down.

Who acts: kinsman, ye, men · What happens: take, say, sit down · To what, where: ten men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ruth 4:2 · 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 (kinsman, ye, men), 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 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 elders	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 elders	det
8	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 men	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 elders	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Sit	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Sit	punct
17	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
18	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 Sit	nsubj
19	down	down	ADV	_	17 Sit	advmod
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 Sit	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Sit	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Sit	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 sat	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	kinsman	ten men of the elders of the city			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	kinsman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down	infinitive	ye		here	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past	men = man			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

וַיִּקַּ֞ח עֲשָׂרָ֧ה אֲנָשִׁ֛ים מִזִּקְנֵ֥י הָעִ֖יר וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁבוּ־פֹ֑ה וַיֵּשֵֽׁבוּ׃

Ruth 4:2: 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:71 of Mova's parse database.

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