Moses and the Exodus, sentence 3

In the desert God fed them with manna, enough for each day, but the journey to the Promised Land took forty years, and the people often grumbled.

Who acts: God, journey, people · What happens: feed, take, grumble · To what, where: Israelites, desert

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, journey, people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 desert	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 desert	det
3	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obl
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fed	nsubj
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 manna	case
8	manna	manna	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 enough	punct
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 manna	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enough	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 journey	det
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 Land	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Land	det
20	Promised	Promised	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Land	compound
21	Land	land	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 journey	nmod
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	conj
23	forty	forty	NUM	NumType=Card	24 years	nummod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grumbled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grumbled	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 grumbled	nsubj
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 grumbled	advmod
30	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	God	Israelites = israelite	the desert		with manna	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in desert=Location
2	take	past	the journey to the Promised Land			year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	grumble speech: other	past	the people				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:3.

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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