Joseph and his brothers, sentence 0
Jacob loved his son Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat; Joseph also told his brothers about dreams in which they bowed down to him, and their jealousy grew.
Who acts: Jacob, Joseph, brothers, jealousy · What happens: love, give, decorate, tell, bow down, grow · To what, where: son, decorated coat, Jacob, brothers, Joseph, dreams · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Joseph and his brothers» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jacob, Joseph, brothers, jealousy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obj |
| 5 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 loved | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coat | det |
| 11 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 12 decorated | advmod |
| 12 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 coat | amod |
| 13 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 15 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 told | nsubj |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 told | advmod |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 dreams | case |
| 21 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 told | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bowed | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bowed | nsubj |
| 25 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dreams | acl:relcl |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 bowed | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bowed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 grew | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 grew | cc |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 jealousy | nmod:poss |
| 32 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grew | nsubj |
| 33 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bowed | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Jacob | Jacob's son | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Jacob not said here | a decorated coat | Jacob | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coat=Theme | |||
| 3 | decorate | participle | richly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Joseph | Joseph's brothers | about dreams | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient about dream=Topic | |||
| 5 | bow down | past | brothers = brother | Joseph | dreams | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | |||
| 6 | grow | past | brothers's jealousy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:005-joseph-and-his-brothers.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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