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title: Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of storing grain, and he saved Egypt an… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of storing grain, and he saved Egypt and many nations from famine. Who acts: Pharaoh, charge. 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 13

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Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of storing grain, and he saved Egypt and many nations from famine.

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**Who acts:** Pharaoh, charge · **What happens:** put, store, save · **To what, where:** Joseph, charge, grain, Egypt, famine

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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 (Pharaoh, charge), 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:13
# text = Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of storing grain, and he saved Egypt and many nations from 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	storing	store	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod
8	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **put** | past | Pharaoh | Joseph |  | charge |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme in charge=Destination |
| 2 | **store** | gerund | charge *not said here* | grain |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | past | Pharaoh | Egypt and many nations |  | famine |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egypt=Theme from famine=Source |

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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:13`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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