Moses and the Exodus, sentence 18
Historians disagree about how much of the Exodus story can be traced in Egyptian records; this is disputed.
Who acts: Historians · What happens: disagree, trace, dispute · To what, where: much, Egyptian records, this
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 (Historians), 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 | Historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 disagree | nsubj |
| 2 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 much | case |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 8 | Exodus | Exodus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 story | compound |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 traced | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 traced | aux:pass |
| 12 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 disagree | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 records | case |
| 14 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 records | amod |
| 15 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 traced | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 disputed | punct |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 disputed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 disputed | aux:pass |
| 19 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 disagree | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disagree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | present | Historians | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | trace | can · passive | much | Egyptian records | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in record=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dispute | present · passive | this | tree rules |
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:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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