Joseph and his brothers, sentence 3

When his brothers came to buy grain and bowed before him, Joseph tested whether they had changed, then revealed himself, wept and forgave them, saying "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20).

Who acts: brothers, Joseph, You, God · What happens: come, buy, bow, test, change, reveal · To what, where: grain, Joseph, brothers · 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, Joseph, You, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tested	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bowed	cc
9	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	conj
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bowed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
13	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tested	nsubj
14	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 changed	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 changed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 changed	aux
18	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 tested	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 revealed	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 revealed	advmod
21	revealed	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tested	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 revealed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wept	punct
24	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tested	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 forgave	cc
26	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wept	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 forgave	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 forgave	advcl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 meant	punct
31	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 meant	nsubj
32	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saying	ccomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meant	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 evil	case
35	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 meant	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 meant	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 meant	cc
38	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 meant	nsubj
39	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 meant	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 meant	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 good	case
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 meant	obl
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 good	punct
44	(	(	PUNCT	_	45 Genesis	punct
45	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 meant	obj
46	50:20	50:20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	45 Genesis	flat
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	45 Genesis	punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tested	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Joseph's brothers				tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	Joseph's brothers not said here	grain			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
3	bow	past	Joseph's brothers not said here		before Joseph		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
4	test	past	Joseph				tree rules
5	change	past · perfect	brothers = brother				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	reveal	past	Joseph not said here	Joseph	then		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
7	weep	past	Joseph not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	forgive	past	Joseph not said here	brothers = brother			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	say speech: assert	gerund	Joseph not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	mean in a quote	past	You	grain		for evil	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for evil=Attribute
11	mean in a quote	past	God	grain		for good	tree rules

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:3.

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): no change. 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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