--- title: Many families greet in their own way: "Namaste" with palms pressed t… — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics description: Many families greet in their own way: "Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting, and "As-salamu alaykum", peace be upon you, is a Muslim greeting answered with "Wa alaykum as-salam" or simply hello. Who acts: Many families, Namaste. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many families, Namaste), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:0 # text = Many families greet in their own way: "Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting, and "As-salamu alaykum", peace be upon you, is a Muslim greeting answered with "Wa alaykum as-salam" or simply hello. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 greet greet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Namaste namaste NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 palms palm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 18 respectful respectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 19 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Nepali nepali ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 26 As as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 salamu salamu X FW _ 29 compound _ _ 29 alaykum alaykum NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 32 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Muslim Muslim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 41 answered answer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct 44 Wa Wa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 alaykum alaykum NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ _ 48 salam salam NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 simply simply ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 52 hello hello INTJ UH _ 51 discourse _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Many families | | | families's own way | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **press** | participle | | palms *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Namaste with palms peace | a respectful Indian greeting | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a Muslim greeting | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | participle | | a Muslim greeting *not said here* | | | | with Wa alaykum as salam | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Handshakes, waves and greetings around…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/21/) - next →: [More greetings and making introductions, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/125-greetings-and-introductions/)