--- title: In Egypt the Hebrews were slaves, and Pharaoh ordered their baby boy… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics description: In Egypt the Hebrews were slaves, and Pharaoh ordered their baby boys to be killed; two brave midwives refused, and Moses' mother hid her baby in a basket on the River Nile, where Pharaoh's own daughter found him and raised him. Who acts: Hebrews, Pharaoh, two brave midwives, mother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hebrews, Pharaoh, two brave midwives, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:006-moses-and-the-exodus.lesson:0 # text = In Egypt the Hebrews were slaves, and Pharaoh ordered their baby boys to be killed; two brave midwives refused, and Moses' mother hid her baby in a basket on the River Nile, where Pharaoh's own daughter found him and raised him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 006-moses-and-the-exodus.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Hebrews Hebrews PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 midwives midwife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ' 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 43 advmod _ _ 39 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ _ 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the Hebrews | slaves | | Egypt | | | tree rules | | 2 | **order** | past | Pharaoh | | Hebrews's baby boys | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Pharaoh *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 4 | **refuse** | past | two brave midwives | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | past | Moses's mother | mother's baby | | a basket on the River Nile | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Patient in basket=Location | | 6 | **find** | past | Pharaoh's own daughter | Pharaoh | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 7 | **raise** | past | Pharaoh's own daughter *not said here* | Pharaoh | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Joseph and his brothers, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/19/) - next →: [Moses and the Exodus, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/)