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title: The word "coat of many colours" comes from old English Bibles; newer… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: The word "coat of many colours" comes from old English Bibles; newer ones often say "richly ornamented robe". Who acts: word, newer ones. 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 cla
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# Joseph and his brothers, sentence 19

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The word "coat of many colours" comes from old English Bibles; newer ones often say "richly ornamented robe".

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**Who acts:** word, newer ones · **What happens:** come, say, ornament · **To what, where:** old English Bibles, ornamented robe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (word, newer ones), 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:19
# text = The word "coat of many colours" comes from old English Bibles; newer ones often say "richly ornamented robe".
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Bibles	bible	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **come** | present | the word |  |  | old English Bibles |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bible=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | newer ones | ornamented robe |  |  |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent robe=Topic |
| 3 | **ornament** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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