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title: [91] We know also that "Israel loved Joseph more than all his childr… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [91] We know also that "Israel loved Joseph more than all his children," because he was the son "of his old age," and the result was that "when his brethren [who were only his half-brothers] saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him." Who acts: We, Israel, brethren, 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 81

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\[91\] We know also that "Israel loved Joseph more than all his children," because he was the son "of his old age," and the result was that "when his brethren \[who were only his half-brothers\] saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him."

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**Who acts:** We, Israel, brethren, father, brothers · **What happens:** know, love, be, hate · **To what, where:** Joseph, son, half brothers, Israel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Israel, brethren, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:21:81
# text = [91] We know also that "Israel loved Joseph more than all his children," because he was the son "of his old age," and the result was that "when his brethren [who were only his half-brothers] saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him."
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	91	91	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
11	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
40	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
49	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	ccomp	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
56	than	than	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	59	det:predet	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
63	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | past | Israel | Joseph |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Israel | the son and the result |  |  | of Israel's old age |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Israel's brethren | Israel's half brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Israel's brethren |  |  |  |  | see *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **love** *in a quote* | past | brothers's father | Israel |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **hate** *in a quote* | past | brothers *= brother* | Israel |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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