Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 17
Hindus say "Satyameva jayate", "Truth alone triumphs", now India's national motto, and one of the five Buddhist precepts is to avoid false speech.
Who acts: Hindus, one · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Satyameva jayate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» 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 (Hindus, one), 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 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 jayate | punct |
| 4 | Satyameva | Satyameva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 jayate | compound |
| 5 | jayate | jayate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 jayate | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 triumphs | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 triumphs | punct |
| 9 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 triumphs | compound |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 triumphs | amod |
| 11 | triumphs | triumph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 triumphs | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 motto | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 motto | advmod |
| 15 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 motto | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 India | case |
| 17 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 motto | amod |
| 18 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 avoid | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 avoid | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 avoid | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 precepts | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 precepts | det |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 precepts | nummod |
| 25 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 precepts | compound |
| 26 | precepts | precept | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 avoid | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 avoid | mark |
| 29 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 motto | conj |
| 30 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 speech | amod |
| 31 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 avoid | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Hindus | Satyameva jayate | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent jayate=Theme triumph=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is | present | one of the five Buddhist precepts | avoid 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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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