Ruth 4:8 · JPS 1917
So the near kinsman said unto Boaz: 'Buy it for thyself.' And he drew off his shoe.
Who acts: near kinsman, kinsman · What happens: say, buy, draw off · To what, where: shoe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Ruth 4:8 · 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 (near kinsman, kinsman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kinsman | det |
| 3 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kinsman | amod |
| 4 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 Boaz | case |
| 7 | Boaz | Boaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
| 10 | Buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Buy | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 thyself | case |
| 13 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 10 Buy | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Buy | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 drew | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the near kinsman | unto Boaz | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | buy | infinitive | shoe | for thyself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for thyself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | draw off | past | kinsman | kinsman's shoe | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
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
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר הַגֹּאֵ֛ל לְבֹ֖עַז קְנֵה־לָ֑ךְ וַיִּשְׁלֹ֖ף נַעֲלֽוֹ׃
Ruth 4:8: 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:78 of Mova's parse database.
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