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title: Moses and his brother Aaron asked Pharaoh, «Let my people go», and P… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: Moses and his brother Aaron asked Pharaoh, «Let my people go», and Pharaoh refused again and again. Who acts: Moses, people, Pharaoh. A sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moses and the Exodus, sentence 10

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Moses and his brother Aaron asked Pharaoh, «Let my people go», and Pharaoh refused again and again.

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**Who acts:** Moses, people, Pharaoh · **What happens:** ask, let, go, refuse · **To what, where:** Pharaoh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Moses, people, Pharaoh), 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:10
# text = Moses and his brother Aaron asked Pharaoh, «Let my people go», and Pharaoh refused again and again.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Moses and Moses's brother |  | Pharaoh |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | my people |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **refuse** | past | Pharaoh |  |  |  | again |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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