Moses and the Exodus, sentence 1
Years later God spoke to Moses from a bush that burned but did not burn up, gave his name «I AM WHO I AM», and sent him to tell Pharaoh: «Let my people go».
Who acts: God, bush, Pharaoh, people, Moses · What happens: speak, burn, not burn up, give, be, send · To what, where: Moses, bush, name, God · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God, bush, Pharaoh, people), 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 later | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Moses | case |
| 6 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bush | det |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 burned | nsubj |
| 11 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bush | acl:relcl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 burn | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 burn | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 burn | advmod |
| 15 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 burned | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 burn | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 27 » | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 » | nsubj |
| 23 | AM | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 » | nsubj |
| 24 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 » | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 » | nsubj |
| 26 | AM | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 » | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | » | » | ADV | _ | 18 gave | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sent | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sent | cc |
| 30 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sent | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 tell | mark |
| 33 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sent | xcomp |
| 34 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 tell | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 Let | punct |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 Let | punct |
| 37 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 tell | ccomp |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 people | nmod:poss |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 go | nsubj |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 Let | xcomp |
| 41 | » | » | ADV | _ | 40 go | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | God | Moses | a bush | late property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to moses=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | burn | past | a bush | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not burn up | past · do-support | a bush not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | God not said here | Moses's name | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | send | past | God not said here | God | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Pharaoh | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | go in a quote | infinitive | my people | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | name | Moses | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:1.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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