--- title: The brothers threw Joseph into a pit, sold him to traders and told t… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: The brothers threw Joseph into a pit, sold him to traders and told their father a wild animal had killed him; in Egypt Joseph refused to do wrong with his master Potiphar's wife, was falsely accused and put in prison. Who acts: brothers, wild animal, Joseph. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, wild animal, Joseph), 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:1 # text = The brothers threw Joseph into a pit, sold him to traders and told their father a wild animal had killed him; in Egypt Joseph refused to do wrong with his master Potiphar's wife, was falsely accused and put in prison. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 iobj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 26 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 27 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 wrong wrong ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 34 Potiphar Potiphar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 falsely falsely ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | a wild animal | Joseph | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **refuse** | past | Joseph | Egypt | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | Joseph *not said here* | Joseph's master's wife | | | | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **accuse** | past · passive | Joseph *not said here* | | | | | falsely *property* | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING» | | 8 | **put** | participle | Joseph *not said here* | | | prison | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in prison=Destination | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Joseph and his brothers, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/0/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/)