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title: Proverbs 25:25 (JPS 1917) — As cold waters to a faint soul, so is good news from a far country. · tree and pragmatics
description: As cold waters to a faint soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:25 · JPS 1917

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As cold waters to a faint soul, so is good news from a far country.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** good news, far country

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This is Proverbs 25:25 · 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: 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:746
# text = As cold waters to a faint soul, so is good news from a far country.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 a** | present |  | good news |  | a far country |  |  | 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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מַ֣יִם קָ֭רִים עַל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ עֲיֵפָ֑ה וּשְׁמוּעָ֥ה ט֝וֹבָ֗ה מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מֶרְחָֽק׃

[Proverbs 25:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.25/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:746` 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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