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title: In every gurdwara there is a langar, a free kitchen where anyone may… — Hinduism and Sikhism · tree and pragmatics
description: In every gurdwara there is a langar, a free kitchen where anyone may sit on the floor and eat together, rich and poor side by side; this is seva, selfless service. Who acts: langar, anyone, this. A sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school w
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# Hinduism and Sikhism, sentence 3

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In every gurdwara there is a langar, a free kitchen where anyone may sit on the floor and eat together, rich and poor side by side; this is seva, selfless service.

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**Who acts:** langar, anyone, this · **What happens:** be, sit, eat · **To what, where:** gurdwara, floor, seva

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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 (langar, anyone, this), 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:3
# text = In every gurdwara there is a langar, a free kitchen where anyone may sit on the floor and eat together, rich and poor side by side; this is seva, selfless service.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	gurdwara	gurdwara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	langar	langar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	seva	seva	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	selfless	selfless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a langar |  |  | every gurdwara; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gurdwara=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | may | anyone |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | seva and selfless service |  |  |  |  | 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): 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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