What other faiths and non-religious people believe, sentence 12
Sikhs believe the soul is reborn until it becomes one with God, like a drop returning to the ocean; Sikhs usually cremate the dead and sing hymns.
Who acts: Sikhs, soul, drop · What happens: believe, be, become, return, cremate, sing · To what, where: dead, hymns · 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 (Sikhs, soul, drop), 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 | Sikhs | sikh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soul | det |
| 4 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reborn | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reborn | cop |
| 6 | reborn | reborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 becomes | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 becomes | nsubj |
| 9 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reborn | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 becomes | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 God | case |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drop | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 drop | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 drop | det |
| 16 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reborn | conj |
| 17 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 drop | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ocean | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ocean | det |
| 20 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returning | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 cremate | punct |
| 22 | Sikhs | sikh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cremate | nsubj |
| 23 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 24 cremate | advmod |
| 24 | cremate | cremate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dead | det |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cremate | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sing | cc |
| 28 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cremate | conj |
| 29 | hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Sikhs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the soul | reborn property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | present | soul | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | return | gerund | a drop not said here | to the ocean result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ocean=Result | ||||
| 5 | cremate | present | Sikhs | the dead | usually property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dead=Patient | |||
| 6 | sing speech: express | present | Sikhs not said here | hymns | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme |
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): R7-rel-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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