Moses and the Exodus, sentence 2
Pharaoh refused again and again, ten plagues struck Egypt, and on the night of the Passover the Israelites left; God opened a way through the Red Sea and they walked out free.
Who acts: Pharaoh, ten plagues, Israelites, God · What happens: refuse, strike, leave, open, walk out · To what, where: Egypt, way, Red Sea
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 (Pharaoh, ten plagues, Israelites, God), 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 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 refused | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 again | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 again | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 again | punct |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 plagues | nummod |
| 8 | plagues | plague | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | conj |
| 10 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Passover | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Passover | det |
| 18 | Passover | Passover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 night | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Israelites | det |
| 20 | Israelites | israelite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 opened | punct |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | nsubj |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | obj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 Sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sea | det |
| 29 | Red | Red | PROPN | _ | 30 Sea | compound |
| 30 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 opened | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 walked | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 walked | nsubj |
| 33 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 opened | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 walked | advmod |
| 35 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 walked | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refused | 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 | refuse | past | Pharaoh | again | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | ten plagues | Egypt | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent egypt=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | the Israelites | night | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | God | a way | the Red Sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent way=Theme through sea=Location | |||
| 5 | walk out | past | Israelites = israelite | free, out property | vn resign-10.11 «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:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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