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title: In the desert God fed the people with manna, bread from heaven, enou… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: In the desert God fed the people with manna, bread from heaven, enough for each day; kept overnight it went bad. Who acts: God, water. 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 15

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In the desert God fed the people with manna, bread from heaven, enough for each day; kept overnight it went bad.

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**Who acts:** God, water · **What happens:** feed, keep, go · **To what, where:** people, desert

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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 (God, water), 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:15
# text = In the desert God fed the people with manna, bread from heaven, enough for each day; kept overnight it went bad.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	manna	manna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | God | the people |  | the desert |  | with manna | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Value in desert=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | participle | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | water |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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.

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

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