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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 disclose | mark |
| 5 | disclose | disclose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disclose | obj |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 disclose | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 12 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Buy | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Buy | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sit | nsubj |
| 17 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 them | acl:relcl |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 sit | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 elders | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 elders | cc |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 elders | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 elders | det |
| 23 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Buy | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 people | nmod:poss |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 elders | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disclose | to-infinitive | I not said here | parcel | unto thee | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | parcel | before men = man; before the elders of my people | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit | present | here | 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
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:
- and I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying: Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people.
- 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.
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