Moses and the Exodus, sentence 10
Moses and his brother Aaron asked Pharaoh, «Let my people go», and Pharaoh refused again and again.
Who acts: Moses, people, Pharaoh · What happens: ask, let, go, refuse · To what, where: Pharaoh · 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 (Moses, people, Pharaoh), 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 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 brother | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moses | conj |
| 5 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | appos |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 10 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 people | nmod:poss |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Let | xcomp |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 refused | cc |
| 17 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 refused | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 again | cc |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 again | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Moses and Moses's brother | Pharaoh | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | my people | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | refuse | past | Pharaoh | again | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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:10.
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): 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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