Joseph and his brothers, sentence 8

Joseph dreamed that his brothers' sheaves of corn, and the sun, moon and stars, bowed down to him, and he told them.

Who acts: Joseph, sheaves · What happens: dream, bow down, tell · To what, where: Joseph, sheaves · 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, sheaves), 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 dreamed	nsubj
2	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 bowed	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brothers	nmod:poss
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sheaves	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 brothers	case
7	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bowed	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 corn	case
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sheaves	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sun	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sun	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sheaves	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 moon	punct
15	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sun	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stars	cc
17	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sheaves	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bowed	punct
19	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dreamed	ccomp
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 bowed	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bowed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dreamed	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	dream	past	Joseph			vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bow down	past	Joseph's brothers's sheaves of corn and the sun and moon and stars	Joseph	down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot
3	tell speech: assert	past	Joseph	sheaves = sheaf		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:8.

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, 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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