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title: Islam is a faith in one God, called Allah in Arabic; its followers a… — Islam · tree and pragmatics
description: Islam is a faith in one God, called Allah in Arabic; its followers are Muslims, and the word Islam means "submission", giving your life to God. Who acts: Islam, followers, word, Muslims. A sentence of the lesson «Islam» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Islam, sentence 0

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Islam is a faith in one God, called Allah in Arabic; its followers are Muslims, and the word Islam means "submission", giving your life to God.

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**Who acts:** Islam, followers, word, Muslims · **What happens:** be, call, mean, give · **To what, where:** faith, one God, Arabic, Muslims, submission, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Islam» 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 (Islam, followers, word, Muslims), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:031-islam.lesson:0
# text = Islam is a faith in one God, called Allah in Arabic; its followers are Muslims, and the word Islam means "submission", giving your life to God.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 031-islam.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	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	submission	submission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Islam | a faith |  |  |  | in one God | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | one God *not said here* |  | Arabic |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | faith's followers | Muslims |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the word *not said here* | submission |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent submission=Topic |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | Muslims *not said here* | your life | God |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to god=Recipient |

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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): 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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