Moses and the Exodus, sentence 0
In Egypt the Hebrews were slaves, and Pharaoh ordered their baby boys to be killed; two brave midwives refused, and Moses' mother hid her baby in a basket on the River Nile, where Pharaoh's own daughter found him and raised him.
Who acts: Hebrews, Pharaoh, two brave midwives, mother, own daughter · What happens: be, order, kill, refuse, hide, find · To what, where: slaves, Egypt, baby boys, baby, basket, Pharaoh
This is a sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» 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 (Hebrews, Pharaoh, two brave midwives, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Egypt | case |
| 2 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 slaves | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hebrews | det |
| 4 | Hebrews | Hebrews | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 slaves | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slaves | cop |
| 6 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 9 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slaves | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boys | nmod:poss |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boys | compound |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 midwives | punct |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 midwives | nummod |
| 19 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 midwives | amod |
| 20 | midwives | midwife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 refused | nsubj |
| 21 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slaves | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hid | cc |
| 24 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 Moses | case |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hid | nsubj |
| 27 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slaves | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 baby | nmod:poss |
| 29 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hid | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 basket | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 basket | det |
| 32 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hid | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 Nile | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Nile | det |
| 35 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Nile | compound |
| 36 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 basket | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 found | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 found | advmod |
| 39 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Pharaoh | case |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 daughter | amod |
| 42 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 found | nsubj |
| 43 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 Nile | acl:relcl |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 found | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 raised | cc |
| 46 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 found | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 raised | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slaves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Hebrews | slaves | Egypt | tree rules | |||
| 2 | order | past | Pharaoh | Hebrews's baby boys | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Pharaoh not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | refuse | past | two brave midwives | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hide | past | Moses's mother | mother's baby | a basket on the River Nile | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Patient in basket=Location | |||
| 6 | find | past | Pharaoh's own daughter | Pharaoh | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 7 | raise | past | Pharaoh's own daughter not said here | Pharaoh | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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, 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:006-moses-and-the-exodus.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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