--- title: Pharaoh refused again and again, ten plagues struck Egypt, and on th… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics description: Pharaoh refused again and again, ten plagues struck Egypt, and on the night of the Passover the Israelites left; God opened a way through the Red Sea and they walked out free. Who acts: Pharaoh, ten plagues, Israelites, God. 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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 (Pharaoh, ten plagues, Israelites, God), 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:2 # text = Pharaoh refused again and again, ten plagues struck Egypt, and on the night of the Passover the Israelites left; God opened a way through the Red Sea and they walked out free. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 again again ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 again again ADV RB _ 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 plagues plague NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Passover Passover PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Israelites israelite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Red Red PROPN NNP _ 30 compound _ _ 30 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 34 out out ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 35 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | past | Pharaoh | | | | again | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **strike** | past | ten plagues | Egypt | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent egypt=Instrument | | 3 | **leave** | past | the Israelites | | | | night | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **open** | past | God | a way | | the Red Sea | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent way=Theme through sea=Location | | 5 | **walk out** | past | Israelites *= israelite* | | | | | free, out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Moses and the Exodus, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/1/) - next →: [Moses and the Exodus, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/)