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title: Jesus' Golden Rule is «Do to others what you would have them do to y… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus' Golden Rule is «Do to others what you would have them do to you» (Matthew 7:12). Who acts: Golden Rule, you, others, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 13

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Jesus' Golden Rule is «Do to others what you would have them do to you» (Matthew 7:12).

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**Who acts:** Golden Rule, you, others, Jesus · **What happens:** be, have, do, rule · **To what, where:** others, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» 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 (Golden Rule, you, others, Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.lesson:13
# text = Jesus' Golden Rule is «Do to others what you would have them do to you» (Matthew 7:12).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.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): no change
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
21	7:12	7:12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** *in a quote* | present | Jesus's Golden Rule |  |  |  |  | to others; do *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | would | you | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rule** |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): no change. **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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