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title: Sikhism was founded about 500 years ago in the Punjab by Guru Nanak,… — Hinduism and Sikhism · tree and pragmatics
description: Sikhism was founded about 500 years ago in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, who taught that there is one God and that all people are equal, whatever their family, wealth or religion. Who acts: Guru, one God, people, whatever. A sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» of the religion ethics course of 
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# Hinduism and Sikhism, sentence 2

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Sikhism was founded about 500 years ago in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, who taught that there is one God and that all people are equal, whatever their family, wealth or religion.

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**Who acts:** Guru, one God, people, whatever · **What happens:** found, teach, be, family · **To what, where:** Sikhism, Punjab · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Guru, one God, people, whatever), 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:2
# text = Sikhism was founded about 500 years ago in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, who taught that there is one God and that all people are equal, whatever their family, wealth or religion.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Sikhism	Sikhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Punjab	punjab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Guru	Guru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
13	Nanak	Nanak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **found** | past · passive | Guru | Sikhism |  | the Punjab |  | ago *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Guru |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | present | one God |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | all people |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **family** |  | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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