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title: Joseph forgave them: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it f… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Joseph forgave them: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Genesis 50:20). Who acts: Joseph, You, God. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 10

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Joseph forgave them: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Genesis 50:20).

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**Who acts:** Joseph, You, God · **What happens:** forgive, intend, harm · **To what, where:** brothers, hurt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 (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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:10
# text = Joseph forgave them: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Genesis 50:20).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.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	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	50:20	50:20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **forgive** | past | Joseph | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **intend** *in a quote* | past | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **harm** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **intend** *in a quote* | past | God | hurt |  |  |  | for good; Genesis *obl* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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): 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.

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