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title: Ahimsa means non-violence to all living things; it is why many Hindu… — Hinduism and Sikhism · tree and pragmatics
description: Ahimsa means non-violence to all living things; it is why many Hindus are vegetarian. Who acts: Ahimsa, non-violence. A sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hinduism and Sikhism, sentence 11

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Ahimsa means non-violence to all living things; it is why many Hindus are vegetarian.

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**Who acts:** Ahimsa, non-violence · **What happens:** mean, live, be · **To what, where:** non-violence, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» 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 (Ahimsa, non-violence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:032-hinduism-and-sikhism.lesson:11
# text = Ahimsa means non-violence to all living things; it is why many Hindus are vegetarian.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 032-hinduism-and-sikhism.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ahimsa	Ahimsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	non-violence	non-violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
6	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Ahimsa | non-violence |  |  |  | to all | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot non-violence=Theme to all=Attribute |
| 2 | **live** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | non-violence |  |  |  |  | vegetarian *property* | 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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**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): 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/).

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