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title: Jesus said: "Do to others what you would have them do to you" (Matth… — The Golden Rule in many traditions · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus said: "Do to others what you would have them do to you" (Matthew 7:12). Who acts: Jesus, you, others. A sentence of the lesson «The Golden Rule in many traditions» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Golden Rule in many traditions, sentence 10

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Jesus said: "Do to others what you would have them do to you" (Matthew 7:12).

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**Who acts:** Jesus, you, others · **What happens:** say, do, have · **To what, where:** others, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Golden Rule in many traditions» 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 (Jesus, you, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:038-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions.lesson:10
# text = Jesus said: "Do to others what you would have them do to you" (Matthew 7:12).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 038-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions.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 ×1
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
19	7:12	7:12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to others | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | would | you | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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