Moses and the Exodus, sentence 14
God parted the sea so the Israelites crossed on dry ground, and Pharaoh's army was drowned when the water came back.
Who acts: God, Israelites, water · What happens: part, cross, drown, come back · To what, where: sea, dry ground, army
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, Israelites, water), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 parted | nsubj |
| 2 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 parted | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 crossed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Israelites | det |
| 7 | Israelites | israelite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 crossed | nsubj |
| 8 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 parted | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ground | amod |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crossed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drowned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drowned | cc |
| 14 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Pharaoh | case |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drowned | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 drowned | aux:pass |
| 18 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 parted | conj |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 drowned | advcl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | God | the sea | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cross | past | the Israelites | dry ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drown | past · passive | Pharaoh's army | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come back | past | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:14.
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): no change. 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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