What other faiths and non-religious people believe, sentence 11
Many Buddhists teach that what is reborn is not a fixed soul but a flow of life, like a flame lit from another candle.
Who acts: Many Buddhists, fixed soul, life · What happens: teach, be, fix, not be, light, flow · To what, where: fixed soul, flame, candle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What other faiths and non-religious people believe» 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 (Many Buddhists, fixed soul, life), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Buddhists | amod |
| 2 | Buddhists | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 soul | mark |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 reborn | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reborn | cop |
| 7 | reborn | reborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soul | csubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 soul | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 soul | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 soul | det |
| 11 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 soul | amod |
| 12 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teach | ccomp |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 flow | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flow | det |
| 15 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soul | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flow | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lit | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 flame | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flame | det |
| 21 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flow | obl |
| 22 | lit | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 flame | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 candle | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 candle | det |
| 25 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lit | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Many Buddhists | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a fixed soul but a flow of life | reborn property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | not is a | present | a fixed soul but a flow of life | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | light | participle | a flame not said here | another candle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from candle=Material | ||||
| 6 | flow | life | nom flow «event intransitive»: of=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.
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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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