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title: "As-salamu alaykum" is a Muslim greeting meaning peace be upon you,… — More greetings and making introductions · tree and pragmatics
description: "As-salamu alaykum" is a Muslim greeting meaning peace be upon you, and the reply is "Wa alaykum as-salam". Who acts: salamu alaykum, Muslim greeting, peace, reply. A sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# More greetings and making introductions, sentence 6

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"As-salamu alaykum" is a Muslim greeting meaning peace be upon you, and the reply is "Wa alaykum as-salam".

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**Who acts:** salamu alaykum, Muslim greeting, peace, reply · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** Muslim greeting, Wa alaykum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (salamu alaykum, Muslim greeting, peace, reply), 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:6
# text = "As-salamu alaykum" is a Muslim greeting meaning peace be upon you, and the reply is "Wa alaykum as-salam".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	salamu	salamu	X	FW	_	5	compound	_	_
5	alaykum	alaykum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	Wa	Wa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	alaykum	alaykum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	salam	salam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | salamu alaykum | a Muslim greeting and Wa alaykum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund | a Muslim greeting and Wa alaykum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | infinitive | peace |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the reply | Wa alaykum |  |  |  | as salam | 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:6`.

**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 ×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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