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title: In Egypt Joseph refused to do wrong with his master Potiphar's wife;… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: In Egypt Joseph refused to do wrong with his master Potiphar's wife; she falsely accused him and he was put in prison. Who acts: Joseph, wife. A sentence of the lesson «Joseph and his brothers» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Joseph and his brothers, sentence 10

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In Egypt Joseph refused to do wrong with his master Potiphar's wife; she falsely accused him and he was put in prison.

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**Who acts:** Joseph, wife · **What happens:** refuse, not do, accuse, put · **To what, where:** Egypt, wife, Joseph, prison

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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 (Joseph, wife), 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:10
# text = In Egypt Joseph refused to do wrong with his master Potiphar's wife; she falsely accused him and he was 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	Potiphar	Potiphar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	falsely	falsely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	accused	accuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **refuse** | past | Joseph |  |  | Egypt |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | Joseph *not said here* | Potiphar's wife |  |  |  | with Joseph's master; wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accuse** | past | wife | Joseph |  |  |  | falsely *property* | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past · passive |  | Joseph |  | prison |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in prison=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): R1-cc-next ×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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