Joseph and his brothers, sentence 9

The brothers threw Joseph into a pit, sold him to traders and told their father he had been killed by an animal.

Who acts: brothers, animal · What happens: throw, sell, tell, kill · To what, where: Joseph, pit, traders, father · 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, animal), 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 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 pit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pit	det
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sold	punct
9	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sold	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 traders	case
12	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 killed	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 killed	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 killed	aux:pass
20	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 told	ccomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 animal	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 animal	det
23	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 killed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the brothers	Joseph		into a pit result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer joseph=Theme into pit=Result
2	sell	past	the brothers not said here	Joseph	traders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to trader=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the brothers not said here		brothers's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
4	kill	past · perfect · passive	a animal	Joseph			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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:9.

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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