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title: Jacob loved Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat, which… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: Jacob loved Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat, which made his brothers jealous. Who acts: Jacob, decorated coat. 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.
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# Joseph and his brothers, sentence 7

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Jacob loved Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat, which made his brothers jealous.

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**Who acts:** Jacob, decorated coat · **What happens:** love, give, decorate, make · **To what, where:** Joseph, decorated coat, brothers

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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 (Jacob, decorated coat), 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:7
# text = Jacob loved Joseph most and gave him a richly decorated coat, which made his brothers jealous.
# 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	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **love** | past | Jacob | Joseph |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joseph=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | Jacob *not said here* | a decorated coat | Joseph |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coat=Theme |
| 3 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | a decorated coat | Joseph's brothers |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product |

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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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**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:7`.

**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/).

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