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title: Proverbs 25:4 (JPS 1917) — Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner; Who acts: you, vessel. Proverbs 25:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:4 · JPS 1917

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Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner;

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**Who acts:** you, vessel · **What happens:** take away, come · **To what, where:** dross, silver

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This is Proverbs 25:4 · 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, vessel), 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:725
# text = Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner;
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dross	dross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	refiner	refiner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **take away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dross |  | the silver |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent dross=Theme from silver=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | a vessel for the refiner |  |  | there |  | forth *property* | 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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הָג֣וֹ סִיגִ֣ים מִכָּ֑סֶף וַיֵּצֵ֖א לַצֹּרֵ֣ף כֶּֽלִי׃

[Proverbs 25:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.4/)

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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:725` 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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