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title: Jeremiah 31:9 (JPS 1917) — They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead the… · tree and pragmatics
description: They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born. Who acts: people, I, Ephraim. Jeremiah 31:9 in JPS 1917 with its d
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# Jeremiah 31:9 · JPS 1917

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They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born.

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**Who acts:** people, I, Ephraim · **What happens:** come, lead, cause, walk, not stumble, become · **To what, where:** people, straight way, father, first born

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This is Jeremiah 31:9 · 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 (people, I, Ephraim), 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:841
# text = They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born.
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	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	stumble	stumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	xcomp	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
48	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
49	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	51	amod	_	_
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	_
51	born	born	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | shall | people |  |  |  |  | with weeping | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | future | I | people |  |  |  | with supplications | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | future | I | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | a straight way |  | by rivers of waters | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **stumble** | shall | people |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | present · passive | I | a father to Israel |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | present | Ephraim | My first born |  |  |  |  | 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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בִּבְכִ֣י יָבֹ֗אוּ וּֽבְתַחֲנוּנִים֮ אֽוֹבִילֵם֒ אֽוֹלִיכֵם֙ אֶל־נַ֣חֲלֵי מַ֔יִם בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ יָשָׁ֔ר לֹ֥א יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ בָּ֑הּ כִּֽי־הָיִ֤יתִי לְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לְאָ֔ב וְאֶפְרַ֖יִם בְּכֹ֥רִי הֽוּא׃ס

[Jeremiah 31:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.9/)

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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:841` of Mova's parse database.

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