--- title: The words «Let my people go» inspired enslaved people in America who… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics description: The words «Let my people go» inspired enslaved people in America who sang and fought for their freedom. Who acts: people, enslaved people. 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 claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Moses and the Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/) / 17 # Moses and the Exodus, sentence 17 The words «Let my people go» inspired enslaved people in America who sang and fought for their freedom. **Who acts:** people, enslaved people · **What happens:** let, go, inspire, enslave, sing, fight · **To what, where:** people, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (people, enslaved 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:17 # text = The words «Let my people go» inspired enslaved people in America who sang and fought for their freedom. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 9 inspired inspire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl:agent 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | my people *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **inspire** | participle · passive | | the words | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer people=Result | | 4 | **enslave** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | enslaved people | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 6 | **fight** | past | enslaved people *not said here* | | | | | for people's freedom | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/16/) - next →: [Moses and the Exodus, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/)