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title: Jeremiah 50:5 (JPS 1917) — They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces hitherward: 'Com… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces hitherward: 'Come ye, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.' Who acts: children, ye. Jeremiah 50:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 50:5 · JPS 1917

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They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces hitherward: 'Come ye, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.'

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**Who acts:** children, ye · **What happens:** inquire, come, join, not forget · **To what, where:** yourselves, everlasting covenant

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This is Jeremiah 50:5 · 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 (children, ye), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JER:1335
# text = They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces hitherward: 'Come ye, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.'
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	concerning	concern	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Zion	Zion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	hitherward	hitherward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	everlasting	everlasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | shall | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | concern Zion; with children's faces; hitherward *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | yourselves |  | a everlasting covenant |  | to the LORD | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient to lord=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **not** **forget** | shall · passive |  | a everlasting covenant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#hebrew}

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צִיּ֣וֹן יִשְׁאָ֔לוּ דֶּ֖רֶךְ הֵ֣נָּה פְנֵיהֶ֑ם בֹּ֚אוּ וְנִלְו֣וּ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָ֖ם לֹ֥א תִשָּׁכֵֽחַ׃ס

[Jeremiah 50:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.5/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:1335` 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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