--- title: Years later God spoke to Moses from a bush that burned but did not b… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics description: Years later God spoke to Moses from a bush that burned but did not burn up, gave his name «I AM WHO I AM», and sent him to tell Pharaoh: «Let my people go». Who acts: God, bush, Pharaoh, people. 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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 (God, bush, Pharaoh, people), 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:1 # text = Years later God spoke to Moses from a bush that burned but did not burn up, gave his name «I AM WHO I AM», and sent him to tell Pharaoh: «Let my people go». # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked 2 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 « « SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 AM be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 nsubj _ _ 24 WHO who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 AM be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 » » ADV RB _ 18 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advcl 34 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 » » ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | God | | Moses | a bush | | late *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to moses=Co-Agent | | 2 | **burn** | past | a bush | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **burn up** | past · do-support | a bush *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | God *not said here* | Moses's name | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | | 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **send** | past | God *not said here* | God | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Pharaoh | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | my people | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **name** | | Moses | | | | | | nom name «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](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:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Moses and the Exodus, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/0/) - next →: [Moses and the Exodus, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/)