Hinduism and Sikhism, sentence 17
Seva means selfless service to others, and it is central in Sikhism.
Who acts: Seva, service · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: selfless service, Sikhism
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 (Seva, service), 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 | Seva | Seva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | selfless | selfless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 service | amod |
| 4 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 others | case |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 service | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 central | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 central | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 central | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 central | cop |
| 11 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Sikhism | case |
| 13 | Sikhism | Sikhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 central | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Seva | selfless service | to others | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot service=Theme to other=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | service | Sikhism | central 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: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): 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.
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