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title: Hindus believe in karma: good and bad actions bring their own results. — Hinduism and Sikhism · tree and pragmatics
description: Hindus believe in karma: good and bad actions bring their own results. Who acts: Hindus, good actions. 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 7

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Hindus believe in karma: good and bad actions bring their own results.

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**Who acts:** Hindus, good actions · **What happens:** believe, bring, result · **To what, where:** karma, own results

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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 (Hindus, good actions), 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:7
# text = Hindus believe in karma: good and bad actions bring their own results.
# 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	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	karma	karma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **believe** | present | Hindus |  |  | karma |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | good actions *not said here* | Hindus's own results |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent result=Theme |
| 3 | **result** |  | Hindus *= hindu* |  |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: 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): 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.

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