Joseph and his brothers, sentence 14

The brothers came to Egypt for grain and bowed before Joseph without knowing him; he tested whether they had changed.

Who acts: brothers, Joseph · What happens: come, bow, know, test, change · To what, where: Egypt, Joseph

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, 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 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Egypt	case
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 grain	case
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bowed	cc
9	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 Joseph	case
11	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bowed	obl
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 knowing	mark
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bowed	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knowing	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tested	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tested	nsubj
17	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 changed	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 changed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 changed	aux
21	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tested	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the brothers		Egypt	for grain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_Location
2	bow	past	the brothers not said here		Joseph		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before joseph=Location
3	know	gerund	the brothers not said here	Joseph			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	test	past	Joseph				tree rules
5	change	past · perfect	brothers = brother				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:14.

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): 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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