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title: Jacob loved his son Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: Jacob loved his son Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat; Joseph also told his brothers about dreams in which they bowed down to him, and their jealousy grew. Who acts: Jacob, Joseph, brothers, jealousy. A sentence of the lesson «Joseph and his brothers» of the religion ethics course of 
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# Joseph and his brothers, sentence 0

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Jacob loved his son Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat; Joseph also told his brothers about dreams in which they bowed down to him, and their jealousy grew.

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**Who acts:** Jacob, Joseph, brothers, jealousy · **What happens:** love, give, decorate, tell, bow down, grow · **To what, where:** son, decorated coat, Jacob, brothers, Joseph, dreams · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jacob, Joseph, brothers, jealousy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:005-joseph-and-his-brothers.lesson:0
# text = Jacob loved his son Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat; Joseph also told his brothers about dreams in which they bowed down to him, and their jealousy grew.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 005-joseph-and-his-brothers.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	iobj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:ccomp
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Jacob | Jacob's son |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | Jacob *not said here* | a decorated coat | Jacob |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coat=Theme |
| 3 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph |  | Joseph's brothers |  |  | about dreams | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient about dream=Topic |
| 5 | **bow down** | past | brothers *= brother* |  | Joseph | dreams |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot |
| 6 | **grow** | past | brothers's jealousy |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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