Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 2
Some people have no religion: an atheist believes there is no God, an agnostic thinks we cannot know, and humanists try to live good lives by reason and compassion, believing this life is the only one.
Who acts: people, atheist, God, agnostic, we, humanists · What happens: have, believe, be, think, not know, try · To what, where: religion, good lives, only one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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, atheist, God, agnostic), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 religion | det |
| 5 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 believes | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 atheist | det |
| 8 | atheist | atheist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 believes | nsubj |
| 9 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 believes | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 God | det |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thinks | punct |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 agnostic | det |
| 16 | agnostic | agnostic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thinks | nsubj |
| 17 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 believes | conj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thinks | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 try | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 try | cc |
| 24 | humanists | humanist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 try | nsubj |
| 25 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 live | mark |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 try | xcomp |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lives | amod |
| 29 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 live | obj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 reason | case |
| 31 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 live | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 compassion | cc |
| 33 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reason | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 believing | punct |
| 35 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 live | advcl |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 life | det |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 one | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 one | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 one | det |
| 40 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 one | amod |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 believing | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | some people | no religion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | believe | present | a atheist | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | present | no God | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | a agnostic | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not know | can | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | try | present | humanists | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | humanists not said here | good lives | by reason and compassion | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||
| 8 | believe | gerund | humanists not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is a | present | this life | the only one | 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:033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.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): 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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