Joseph and his brothers, sentence 16
Joseph told his brothers: "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20).
Who acts: Joseph, brothers, God · What happens: tell, mean · To what, where: brothers, grain · 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 (Joseph, brothers, God), 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 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | 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 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 meant | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 meant | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meant | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 evil | case |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meant | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meant | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 meant | cc |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 meant | nsubj |
| 15 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 meant | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meant | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 good | case |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meant | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 meant | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Genesis | punct |
| 21 | Genesis | Genesis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | parataxis |
| 22 | 50:20 | 50:20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Genesis | flat |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Genesis | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Joseph | Joseph's brothers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | past | Joseph's brothers = brother | grain | for evil | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for evil=Attribute | |||
| 3 | mean in a quote | past | God | grain | for good | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for good=Attribute |
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:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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