Hinduism and Sikhism, sentence 11
Ahimsa means non-violence to all living things; it is why many Hindus are vegetarian.
Who acts: Ahimsa, non-violence · What happens: mean, live, be · To what, where: non-violence, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» 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 (Ahimsa, non-violence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahimsa | Ahimsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | non-violence | non-violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 non-violence | nmod |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 all | acl |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 living | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 vegetarian | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 vegetarian | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 vegetarian | cop |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 vegetarian | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Hindus | amod |
| 13 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 vegetarian | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 vegetarian | cop |
| 15 | vegetarian | vegetarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Ahimsa | non-violence | to all | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot non-violence=Theme to all=Attribute | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | things | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location | |||||
| 3 | is | present | non-violence | vegetarian property | tree rules |
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, 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:032-hinduism-and-sikhism.lesson:11.
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): 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.
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