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title: Jeremiah 33:22 (JPS 1917) — As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the se… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David My servant, and the Levites that minister unto Me. Who acts: sand, I, Levites. Jeremiah 33:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 33:22 · JPS 1917

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As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David My servant, and the Levites that minister unto Me.

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**Who acts:** sand, I, Levites · **What happens:** not number, measure, multiply, minister · **To what, where:** host, seed

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This is Jeremiah 33:22 · 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 (sand, I, Levites), 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:942
# text = As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David My servant, and the Levites that minister unto Me.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc:preconj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Levites	levite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	minister	minister	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=promise, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **number** | can · passive |  | the host of heaven |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | past | the sand of the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **multiply** | future | I | the seed of David and the Levites |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 4 | **minister** | present | the Levites |  |  |  |  | unto Me | 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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אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־יִסָּפֵר֙ צְבָ֣א הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְלֹ֥א יִמַּ֖ד ח֣וֹל הַיָּ֑ם כֵּ֣ן אַרְבֶּ֗ה אֶת־זֶ֙רַע֙ דָּוִ֣ד עַבְדִּ֔י וְאֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֖ם מְשָׁרְתֵ֥י אֹתִֽי׃ס

[Jeremiah 33:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.33.22/)

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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:942` 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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