--- title: Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave and fooled their father with J… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics description: Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave and fooled their father with Joseph's coat dipped in goat's blood (Genesis 37:31-33); years later, when they met him again in Egypt without knowing him, they said, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother" (Genesis 42:21). Who acts: brothers, coat. 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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, coat), 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:9 # text = Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave and fooled their father with Joseph's coat dipped in goat's blood (Genesis 37:31-33); years later, when they met him again in Egypt without knowing him, they said, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother" (Genesis 42:21). # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 fooled fool VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 dipped dip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 37:31-33 37:31-33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 flat _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl:unmarked 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 42 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 without without SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 45 Surely surely ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 46 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 48 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 ccomp _ _ 50 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 53 case _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 50 fixed _ _ 52 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 55 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 56 punct _ _ 56 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 dep _ _ 57 42:21 42:21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 56 flat _ _ 58 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 56 punct _ _ 59 . . 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 | **sell** | past | Joseph's brothers | Joseph | | | | as a slave | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **fool** | past | Joseph's brothers *not said here* | brothers's father | | | | with Joseph's coat | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | | 3 | **dip** | past | Joseph's coat *not said here* | | | | | in goat's blood | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in blood=Attribute | | 4 | **meet** | past | brothers *= brother* | Joseph | | Egypt | again | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **know** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | Joseph | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **punish** *in a quote* | present · passive | | we | | | | because our brother; surely *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:9`. **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 ×3, 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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