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title: Meditation is quiet focusing of the mind; it is central in Buddhism… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief · tree and pragmatics
description: Meditation is quiet focusing of the mind; it is central in Buddhism and used by many other people too. Who acts: Meditation. A sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 9

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Meditation is quiet focusing of the mind; it is central in Buddhism and used by many other people too.

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**Who acts:** Meditation · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** quiet focusing, Buddhism

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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 (Meditation), 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:9
# text = Meditation is quiet focusing of the mind; it is central in Buddhism and used by many other people too.
# 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
1	Meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	focusing	focus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:agent	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Meditation | quiet focusing |  |  |  | of the mind | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Meditation |  |  | Buddhism |  | central *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | participle | Meditation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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