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title: "Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nep… — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics
description: "Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting. Who acts: Namaste. A sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More greetings and making introductions, sentence 5

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"Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting.

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**Who acts:** Namaste · **What happens:** press, be · **To what, where:** palms, respectful Indian greeting

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» of the everyday 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 (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:5
# text = "Namaste" with palms pressed together is a respectful Indian and Nepali greeting.
# 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Namaste	namaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Nepali	Nepali	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | participle |  | palms *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Namaste with palms | a respectful Indian greeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:5`.

**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. **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/).

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