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title: The Hindu Mahabharata says one should never do to another what one r… — The Golden Rule in many traditions · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hindu Mahabharata says one should never do to another what one regards as hurtful to oneself. Who acts: Hindu Mahabharata, one. 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 ever
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# The Golden Rule in many traditions, sentence 13

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The Hindu Mahabharata says one should never do to another what one regards as hurtful to oneself.

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**Who acts:** Hindu Mahabharata, one · **What happens:** say, not do, regards · **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 (Hindu Mahabharata, one), 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:13
# text = The Hindu Mahabharata says one should never do to another what one regards as hurtful to oneself.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Mahabharata	mahabharata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
12	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	regards	regards	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Hindu Mahabharata |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **do** | should | one |  |  |  |  | to another | tree rules |
| 3 | **regards** | present | one |  |  |  |  | hurtful *property* | 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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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