--- title: Pharaoh dreamed of seven fat cows and seven thin cows; Joseph explai… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Pharaoh dreamed of seven fat cows and seven thin cows; Joseph explained this meant seven years of plenty, then seven of famine. Who acts: Pharaoh, Joseph, this. 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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 (Pharaoh, Joseph, this), 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:12 # text = Pharaoh dreamed of seven fat cows and seven thin cows; Joseph explained this meant seven years of plenty, then seven of famine. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:dislocated|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 15 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 22 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** | past | Pharaoh | | | | | of seven fat cows and seven thin cows | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | past | this | | | | year | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/11/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/)