Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 9

Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave and fooled their father with Joseph's coat dipped in goat's blood (Genesis 37:31-33); years later, when they met him again in Egypt without knowing him, they said, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother" (Genesis 42:21).

Who acts: brothers, coat · What happens: sell, fool, dip, meet, know, say · To what, where: Joseph, father, Egypt, we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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, coat), 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	3 brothers	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Joseph	case
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 slave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slave	det
8	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fooled	cc
10	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fooled	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 coat	case
14	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 coat	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Joseph	case
16	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fooled	obl
17	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 coat	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 blood	case
19	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blood	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 goat	case
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dipped	obl
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 Genesis	punct
23	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 blood	appos
24	37:31-33	37:31-33	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 Genesis	flat
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 Genesis	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 years	punct
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 later	obl:unmarked
28	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 said	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 met	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 met	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 met	nsubj
32	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 said	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 met	obj
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 met	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 Egypt	case
36	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 met	obl
37	without	without	SCONJ	_	38 knowing	mark
38	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 met	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 knowing	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 punished	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 punished	punct
45	Surely	surely	ADV	_	49 punished	advmod
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 punished	nsubj:pass
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 punished	aux:pass
48	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 punished	aux:pass
49	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 said	ccomp
50	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	53 brother	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	50 because	fixed
52	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 brother	nmod:poss
53	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 punished	obl
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 punished	punct
55	(	(	PUNCT	_	56 Genesis	punct
56	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 punished	dep
57	42:21	42:21	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	56 Genesis	flat
58	)	)	PUNCT	_	56 Genesis	punct
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	Joseph's brothers	Joseph			as a slave	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fool	past	Joseph's brothers not said here	brothers's father			with Joseph's coat	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
3	dip	past	Joseph's coat not said here				in goat's blood	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in blood=Attribute
4	meet	past	brothers = brother	Joseph	Egypt	again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	know	gerund	brothers = brother not said here	Joseph				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	brothers = brother				late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	punish in a quote	present · passive		we			because our brother; surely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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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 ×3, 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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