--- title: In prison he helped others and explained dreams, and when he explain… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: In prison he helped others and explained dreams, and when he explained Pharaoh's dreams of seven fat and seven thin cows, Pharaoh put him in charge of storing grain, and Joseph saved Egypt and many nations from famine. Who acts: Joseph, Pharaoh, charge. 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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 (Joseph, 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:2 # text = In prison he helped others and explained dreams, and when he explained Pharaoh's dreams of seven fat and seven thin cows, Pharaoh put him in charge of storing grain, and Joseph 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): R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 14 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 25 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 storing store VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 32 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:conj 41 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | past | Joseph | others | | prison | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph *not said here* | dreams | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph | Pharaoh's dreams of seven fat and seven thin cows | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | | 4 | **put** | past | Pharaoh | Joseph | | charge | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in charge=Destination | | 5 | **store** | gerund | charge *not said here* | grain | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 6 | **save** | past | Joseph | Egypt and many nations | | famine | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egypt=Theme from famine=Source | | 7 | **dream** | | Pharaoh | seven fat | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/1/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/)