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title: Jeremiah 23:24 (JPS 1917) — Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. Who acts: I, LORD. Jeremiah 23:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 23:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

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**Who acts:** I, LORD · **What happens:** not fill, say · **To what, where:** heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 23:24 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (I, 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:642
# text = Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fill** | present · do-support | I | heaven and earth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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אִם־יִסָּתֵ֨ר אִ֧ישׁ בַּמִּסְתָּרִ֛ים וַאֲנִ֥י לֹֽא־אֶרְאֶ֖נּוּ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הֲל֨וֹא אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֧יִם וְאֶת־הָאָ֛רֶץ אֲנִ֥י מָלֵ֖א נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

[Jeremiah 23:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.24/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.641/)
2. **Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.**

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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:642` 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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