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title: Jeremiah 31:21 (JPS 1917) — Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the high-way, even the way by which thou wentest; Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities. Who acts: you, thou. Jeremiah 31:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 31:21 · JPS 1917

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Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the high-way, even the way by which thou wentest; Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** set up, make, set, go, return · **To what, where:** thee, guide posts, heart, cities

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This is Jeremiah 31:21 · 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 (you, thou), 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:855
# text = Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the high-way, even the way by which thou wentest; Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.
1	Set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	waymarks	waymark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	iobj	_	_
8	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wentest	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	_
32	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
36	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | imperative | you *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme waymark=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | guide posts | thee |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset thou=Beneficiary post=Product |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy heart |  |  |  | toward the high way | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient heart=Result |
| 4 | **go** | past | thou |  |  |  |  | by the way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by which=Location |
| 5 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **return** | infinitive |  | thy cities |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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הַצִּ֧יבִי לָ֣ךְ צִיֻּנִ֗ים שִׂ֤מִי לָךְ֙ תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים שִׁ֣תִי לִבֵּ֔ךְ לַֽמְסִלָּ֖ה דֶּ֣רֶךְ הָלָ֑כְתְּ שׁ֚וּבִי בְּתוּלַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שֻׁ֖בִי אֶל־עָרַ֥יִךְ אֵֽלֶּה׃

[Jeremiah 31:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.21/)

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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:855` 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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