--- title: Joseph told his brothers: "You meant it for evil, but God meant it f… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Joseph told his brothers: "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20). Who acts: Joseph, brothers, God. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Joseph and his brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/) / 16 # Joseph and his brothers, sentence 16 Joseph told his brothers: "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20). **Who acts:** Joseph, brothers, God · **What happens:** tell, mean · **To what, where:** brothers, grain · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, brothers, God), 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:16 # text = Joseph told his brothers: "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20). # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 iobj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 22 50:20 50:20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph | | Joseph's brothers | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | Joseph's brothers *= brother* | grain | | | | for evil | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for evil=Attribute | | 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | God | grain | | | | for good | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for good=Attribute | 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:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Joseph and his brothers, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/15/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/)