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title: Jeremiah 33:25 (JPS 1917) — Thus saith the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus saith the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; Who acts: LORD, covenant, I, My. Jeremiah 33:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jeremiah 33:25 · JPS 1917

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Thus saith the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

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**Who acts:** LORD, covenant, I, My · **What happens:** say, not be, not appoint, covenant, ordain · **To what, where:** ordinances, heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Jeremiah 33:25 · 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 (LORD, covenant, I, My), 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:945
# text = Thus saith the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ordinances	ordinance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | My covenant |  |  |  | with day and night |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **appoint** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | I | the ordinances of heaven and earth |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinance=Theme |
| 4 | **covenant** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **ordain** |  |  | heaven and earth |  |  |  |  | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אִם־לֹ֥א בְרִיתִ֖י יוֹמָ֣ם וָלָ֑יְלָה חֻקּ֛וֹת שָׁמַ֥יִם וָאָ֖רֶץ לֹא־שָֽׂמְתִּי׃

[Jeremiah 33:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.33.25/)

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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:945` 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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