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Ruth 4:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

and I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying: Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people.

Who acts: I · What happens: think, disclose, say, buy, sit · To what, where: parcel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Ruth 4:4 · 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 (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

ccnsubjmarkxcompobjcaseoblpunctadvclpunctccompobjcaseoblnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctcccasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootandCCONJIPRONthoughtVERBtoPARTdiscloseVERBitPRONuntoADPtheePRON,PUNCTsayingVERB:PUNCTBuyVERBitPRONbeforeADPthemPRONthatPRONsitVERBhereADV,PUNCTandCCONJbeforeADPtheDETeldersNOUNofADPmyPRONpeopleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1andandCCONJ_3 thoughtcc
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 thoughtnsubj
3thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 disclosemark
5disclosediscloseVERBVerbForm=Inf3 thoughtxcomp
6ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 discloseobj
7untountoADP_8 theecase
8theethouPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch5 discloseobl
9,,PUNCT_10 sayingpunct
10sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 thoughtadvcl
11::PUNCT_10 sayingpunct
12BuybuyVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin10 sayingccomp
13ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 Buyobj
14beforebeforeADP_15 themcase
15themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 Buyobl
16thatthatPRONPronType=Rel17 sitnsubj
17sitsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 themacl:relcl
18herehereADVPronType=Dem17 sitadvmod
19,,PUNCT_23 elderspunct
20andandCCONJ_23 elderscc
21beforebeforeADP_23 elderscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 eldersdet
23elderselderNOUNNumber=Plur12 Buyobl
24ofofADP_26 peoplecase
25mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 peoplenmod:poss
26peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur23 eldersnmod
27..PUNCT_3 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
assert
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastIvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2discloseto-infinitiveI not said hereparcelunto theevn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Topic
3say speech: assertgerundI not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4buyinfinitiveparcelbefore men = man; before the elders of my peoplevn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5sitpresentherevn 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

וַאֲנִ֨י אָמַ֜רְתִּי אֶגְלֶ֧ה אָזְנְךָ֣ לֵאמֹ֗ר קְ֠נֵה נֶ֥גֶד הַֽיֹּשְׁבִים֮ וְנֶ֣גֶד זִקְנֵ֣י עַמִּי֒ אִם־תִּגְאַל֙ גְּאָ֔ל וְאִם־לֹ֨א יִגְאַ֜ל הַגִּ֣ידָה לִּ֗י וְאֵֽדְעָה֙ כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין זוּלָֽתְךָ֙ לִגְא֔וֹל וְאָנֹכִ֖י אַחֲרֶ֑יךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אָנֹכִ֥י אֶגְאָֽל׃

Ruth 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →

This verse in JPS 1917:

  1. and I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying: Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people.
  2. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it; but if it will not be redeemed, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee.' And he said: 'I will redeem it.'

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:RUT:73 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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