Moses and the Exodus, sentence 7
Two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refused Pharaoh's order to kill the baby boys.
Who acts: Two Hebrew midwives, Pharaoh · What happens: refuse, kill, order · To what, where: order, baby boys
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 (Two Hebrew midwives, Pharaoh), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 midwives | nummod |
| 2 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 midwives | amod |
| 3 | midwives | midwife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shiphrah | punct |
| 5 | Shiphrah | Shiphrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 midwives | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Puah | cc |
| 7 | Puah | Puah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Shiphrah | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 midwives | punct |
| 9 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 order | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Pharaoh | case |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 refused | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 order | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boys | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boys | compound |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kill | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Two Hebrew midwives | Pharaoh's order | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | Two Hebrew midwives not said here | the baby boys | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | Pharaoh | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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:7.
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): no change. 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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