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title: Malachi 3:2 (JPS 1917) — For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap; · tree and pragmatics
description: For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap; Who acts: messenger. Malachi 3:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 3:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap;

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**Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** be

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This is Malachi 3:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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 (messenger), 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:MAL:45
# text = For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap;
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	refiner	refiner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	fullers	fuller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | messenger |  |  |  |  | like a refiner's fire and fullers's soap | 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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וּמִ֤י מְכַלְכֵּל֙ אֶת־י֣וֹם בּוֹא֔וֹ וּמִ֥י הָעֹמֵ֖ד בְּהֵרָֽאוֹת֑וֹ כִּֽי־הוּא֙ כְּאֵ֣שׁ מְצָרֵ֔ף וּכְבֹרִ֖ית מְכַבְּסִֽים׃

[Malachi 3:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [But who may abide the day of his coming?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.43/)
2. [And who shall stand when he appeareth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.44/)
3. **For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap;**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MAL:45` 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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