Moses and the Exodus, sentence 16
The Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness before reaching the Promised Land, and they often grumbled.
Who acts: Israelites · What happens: wander, reach, promise, grumble · To what, where: wilderness, Promised Land
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 (Israelites), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Israelites | det |
| 2 | Israelites | israelite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wilderness | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wilderness | det |
| 8 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 reaching | mark |
| 10 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wandered | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Land | det |
| 12 | Promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Land | amod |
| 13 | Land | land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reaching | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grumbled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grumbled | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grumbled | nsubj |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 grumbled | advmod |
| 18 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the Israelites | the wilderness | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wilderness=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | gerund | the Israelites not said here | the Promised Land | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | grumble speech: other | past | Israelites = israelite | often property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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:16.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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