--- title: When his brothers came to buy grain and bowed before him, Joseph tes… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: When his brothers came to buy grain and bowed before him, Joseph tested whether they had changed, then revealed himself, wept and forgave them, saying "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20). Who acts: brothers, Joseph, You, God. 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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, You, 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:3 # text = When his brothers came to buy grain and bowed before him, Joseph tested whether they had changed, then revealed himself, wept and forgave them, saying "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): no change 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tested test VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 revealed reveal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 forgave forgive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obl _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 46 50:20 50:20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 flat _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Joseph's brothers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Joseph's brothers *not said here* | grain | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 3 | **bow** | past | Joseph's brothers *not said here* | | | | before Joseph | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | | 4 | **test** | past | Joseph | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **reveal** | past | Joseph *not said here* | Joseph | | | then | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 7 | **weep** | past | Joseph *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **forgive** | past | Joseph *not said here* | brothers *= brother* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Joseph *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | You | grain | | | | for evil | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot it=Theme for evil=Attribute | | 11 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | God | grain | | | | for good | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/2/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/)