Joseph and his brothers, sentence 2
In prison he helped others and explained dreams, and when he explained Pharaoh's dreams of seven fat and seven thin cows, Pharaoh put him in charge of storing grain, and Joseph saved Egypt and many nations from famine.
Who acts: Joseph, Pharaoh, charge · What happens: help, explain, put, store, save, dream · To what, where: others, prison, dreams, Joseph, charge, grain
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, Pharaoh, charge), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 prison | case |
| 2 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 helped | nsubj |
| 4 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 helped | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 explained | cc |
| 7 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 helped | conj |
| 8 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 explained | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 explained | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 explained | nsubj |
| 13 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 put | advcl |
| 14 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Pharaoh | case |
| 16 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 explained | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fat | case |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 fat | nummod |
| 19 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dreams | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cows | cc |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 cows | nummod |
| 22 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cows | amod |
| 23 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dreams | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 explained | punct |
| 25 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 helped | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 charge | case |
| 29 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 storing | mark |
| 31 | storing | store | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 charge | acl |
| 32 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 storing | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saved | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saved | cc |
| 35 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 saved | nsubj |
| 36 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 helped | conj |
| 37 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 saved | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 nations | cc |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 nations | amod |
| 40 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Egypt | conj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 famine | case |
| 42 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saved | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Joseph | others | prison | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Joseph not said here | dreams | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | Joseph | Pharaoh's dreams of seven fat and seven thin cows | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | ||||
| 4 | put | past | Pharaoh | Joseph | charge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in charge=Destination | |||
| 5 | store | gerund | charge not said here | grain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | ||||
| 6 | save | past | Joseph | Egypt and many nations | famine | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egypt=Theme from famine=Source | |||
| 7 | dream | Pharaoh | seven fat | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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:2.
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 ×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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