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title: Proverbs 17:3 (JPS 1917) — The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LO… · tree and pragmatics
description: The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts. Who acts: refining pot, LORD. Proverbs 17:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 17:3 · JPS 1917

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The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.

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**Who acts:** refining pot, LORD · **What happens:** be, try · **To what, where:** hearts

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This is Proverbs 17:3 · 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 (refining pot, 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:PRO:479
# text = The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	refining	refine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	trieth	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the refining pot |  |  |  |  | for silver and the furnace and gold | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | present | the LORD | the hearts |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |

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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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מַצְרֵ֣ף לַ֭כֶּסֶף וְכ֣וּר לַזָּהָ֑ב וּבֹחֵ֖ן לִבּ֣וֹת יְהוָֽה׃

[Proverbs 17:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.3/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:479` 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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