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title: In the Bible, Abraham's son was Isaac, Isaac's son was Jacob, and Ja… — Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals o… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Bible, Abraham's son was Isaac, Isaac's son was Jacob, and Jacob's twelve sons included Joseph, whose brothers sold him and who later brought the whole family to Egypt. Who acts: son, twelve sons, brothers. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faith
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# Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★, sentence 5

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In the Bible, Abraham's son was Isaac, Isaac's son was Jacob, and Jacob's twelve sons included Joseph, whose brothers sold him and who later brought the whole family to Egypt.

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**Who acts:** son, twelve sons, brothers · **What happens:** be, include, sell, bring · **To what, where:** Isaac, Bible, Jacob, Joseph, whole family, Egypt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» 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 (son, twelve sons, brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.lesson:5
# text = In the Bible, Abraham's son was Isaac, Isaac's son was Jacob, and Jacob's twelve sons included Joseph, whose brothers sold him and who later brought the whole family to Egypt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
11	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
23	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Abraham's son | Isaac and Jacob |  | the Bible |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Isaac's son | Jacob |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **include** | past | Jacob's twelve sons | Joseph |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | past | brothers | Joseph |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | past |  | the whole family | Egypt |  |  | late *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme to egypt=Destination |

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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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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