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title: About 2500 years ago in India a prince called Siddhartha Gautama lef… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: About 2500 years ago in India a prince called Siddhartha Gautama left his palace to find out why people suffer; Buddhists call him the Buddha, "the awakened one", and follow his path of wisdom and kindness. Who acts: prince, people, Buddhists. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 0

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About 2500 years ago in India a prince called Siddhartha Gautama left his palace to find out why people suffer; Buddhists call him the Buddha, "the awakened one", and follow his path of wisdom and kindness.

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**Who acts:** prince, people, Buddhists · **What happens:** call, leave, find out, suffer, awaken, follow · **To what, where:** prince, palace, path · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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 (prince, people, Buddhists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.lesson:0
# text = About 2500 years ago in India a prince called Siddhartha Gautama left his palace to find out why people suffer; Buddhists call him the Buddha, "the awakened one", and follow his path of wisdom and kindness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Siddhartha	Siddhartha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	Gautama	Gautama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
23	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **call** | participle |  | a prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | past | a prince | prince's palace |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 3 | **find out** | to-infinitive | a prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **suffer** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Buddhists |  | prince |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **awaken** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **follow** | present | Buddhists *not said here* | prince's path of wisdom and kindness |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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