--- title: Joseph dreamed that his brothers' sheaves of corn, and the sun, moon… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Joseph dreamed that his brothers' sheaves of corn, and the sun, moon and stars, bowed down to him, and he told them. Who acts: Joseph, sheaves. 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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, sheaves), 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:8 # text = Joseph dreamed that his brothers' sheaves of corn, and the sun, moon and stars, bowed down to him, and he told them. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ' 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 sheaves sheaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 20 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** | past | Joseph | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bow down** | past | Joseph's brothers's sheaves of corn and the sun and moon and stars | | Joseph | | | down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Joseph | | sheaves *= sheaf* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:8`. **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, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/7/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/)