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title: In prison Joseph helped the other prisoners and explained the dreams… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: In prison Joseph helped the other prisoners and explained the dreams of Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer. Who acts: Joseph. 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 every clause.
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# Joseph and his brothers, sentence 11

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In prison Joseph helped the other prisoners and explained the dreams of Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer.

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**Who acts:** Joseph · **What happens:** help, explain, dream · **To what, where:** other prisoners, prison, dreams, baker

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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), 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:11
# text = In prison Joseph helped the other prisoners and explained the dreams of Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cupbearer	cupbearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **help** | past | Joseph | the other prisoners |  | prison |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* | the dreams of Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic |
| 3 | **dream** |  |  | Pharaoh's baker and cupbearer |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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:11`.

**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): no change. **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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