Moses and the Exodus, sentence 5
Pharaoh ordered Hebrew baby boys to be killed, and Moses' mother hid him in a basket on the Nile.
Who acts: Pharaoh, mother · What happens: order, kill, hide · To what, where: Hebrew baby boys, Pharaoh, basket
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, mother), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boys | amod |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boys | compound |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 killed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 killed | aux:pass |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hid | cc |
| 11 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 Moses | case |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | nsubj |
| 14 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hid | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 basket | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 basket | det |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Nile | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Nile | det |
| 21 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 basket | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Pharaoh | Hebrew baby boys | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Pharaoh not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | Moses's mother | Pharaoh | a basket on the Nile | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in basket=Location |
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:5.
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 ×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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