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title: Jeremiah 23:18 (JPS 1917) — For who hath stood in the council of the LORD, that he should percei… · tree and pragmatics
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# Jeremiah 23:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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For who hath stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear His word?

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** stand, perceive, hear, word · **To what, where:** council, word

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This is Jeremiah 23:18 · 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), 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:634
# text = For who hath stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear His word?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=express, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present · perfect |  |  |  | the council of the LORD |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in council=Location |
| 2 | **perceive** | should | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hear** | infinitive | LORD *not said here* | LORD's word |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 4 | **word** |  | LORD |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כִּ֣י מִ֤י עָמַד֙ בְּס֣וֹד יְהוָ֔ה וְיֵ֖רֶא וְיִשְׁמַ֣ע אֶת־דְּבָר֑וֹ מִֽי־הִקְשִׁ֥יב דְּבָר֖וֹ וַיִּשְׁמָֽע׃ס

[Jeremiah 23:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **For who hath stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear His word?**
2. [Who hath attended to His word, and heard it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.635/)

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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:634` 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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