Joseph and his brothers, sentence 12
Pharaoh dreamed of seven fat cows and seven thin cows; Joseph explained this meant seven years of plenty, then seven of famine.
Who acts: Pharaoh, Joseph, this · What happens: dream, explain, mean · 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 (Pharaoh, Joseph, this), 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 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dreamed | nsubj |
| 2 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 explained | parataxis |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cows | case |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cows | nummod |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cows | amod |
| 6 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dreamed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cows | cc |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cows | nummod |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cows | amod |
| 10 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cows | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 explained | punct |
| 12 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 explained | nsubj |
| 13 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 meant | nsubj |
| 15 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 explained | ccomp |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 meant | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 plenty | case |
| 19 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 years | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seven | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 seven | advmod |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 famine | case |
| 24 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seven | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | Pharaoh | of seven fat cows and seven thin cows | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Joseph | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean | past | this | year | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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