Joseph and his brothers, sentence 1

The brothers threw Joseph into a pit, sold him to traders and told their father a wild animal had killed him; in Egypt Joseph refused to do wrong with his master Potiphar's wife, was falsely accused and put in prison.

Who acts: brothers, wild animal, Joseph · What happens: throw, sell, tell, kill, refuse, not do · To what, where: Joseph, pit, traders, father, Egypt, wife · 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 (brothers, wild animal, Joseph), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 pit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pit	det
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sold	punct
9	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sold	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 traders	case
12	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 animal	det
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animal	amod
19	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 killed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 killed	aux
21	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 killed	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 refused	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 Joseph	case
25	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 refused	obl
26	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 refused	nsubj
27	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 refused	xcomp
30	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	29 do	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 master	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 master	nmod:poss
33	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wife	nmod:poss
34	Potiphar	Potiphar	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 wife	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Potiphar	case
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 accused	punct
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 accused	aux:pass
39	falsely	falsely	ADV	_	40 accused	advmod
40	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 refused	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 put	cc
42	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 accused	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 prison	case
44	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 put	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the brothers	Joseph			into a pit result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer joseph=Theme into pit=Result
2	sell	past	the brothers not said here	Joseph	traders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to trader=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the brothers not said here		brothers's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
4	kill	past · perfect	a wild animal	Joseph				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	refuse	past	Joseph	Egypt				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not do	to-infinitive	Joseph not said here	Joseph's master's wife			wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	accuse	past · passive	Joseph not said here				falsely property	vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»
8	put	participle	Joseph not said here			prison		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in prison=Destination

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:1.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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