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title: Jeremiah 6:16 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. Who acts: LORD, ye. Jeremiah 6:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 6:16 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

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**Who acts:** LORD, ye · **What happens:** say, stand, see, ask, walk, be · **To what, where:** ways, good therein, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 6:16 · 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 (LORD, 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:185
# text = Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	therein	therein	NOUN	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
35	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | ye |  |  | the ways |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the old paths | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **walk** | infinitive | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the good therein |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | shall | ye | rest |  |  |  | for your souls | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rest=Theme for soul=Beneficiary |

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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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כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֡ה עִמְדוּ֩ עַל־דְּרָכִ֨ים וּרְא֜וּ וְשַׁאֲל֣וּ ׀ לִנְתִב֣וֹת עוֹלָ֗ם אֵי־זֶ֨ה דֶ֤רֶךְ הַטּוֹב֙ וּלְכוּ־בָ֔הּ וּמִצְא֥וּ מַרְגּ֖וֹעַ לְנַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נֵלֵֽךְ׃

[Jeremiah 6:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.16/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.**
2. [But they said: 'We will not walk therein.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.186/)

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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:185` 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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