--- title: The brothers came to Egypt for grain and bowed before Joseph without… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: The brothers came to Egypt for grain and bowed before Joseph without knowing him; he tested whether they had changed. Who acts: brothers, 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, 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:14 # text = The brothers came to Egypt for grain and bowed before Joseph without knowing him; he tested whether they had changed. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 tested test VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the brothers | | | Egypt | | for grain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **bow** | past | the brothers *not said here* | | | Joseph | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before joseph=Location | | 3 | **know** | gerund | the brothers *not said here* | Joseph | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **test** | past | Joseph | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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. 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