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title: Sikh scripture teaches seeing all people as equal, and the ancient C… — The Golden Rule in many traditions · tree and pragmatics
description: Sikh scripture teaches seeing all people as equal, and the ancient Chinese teacher Confucius said: "Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself". Who acts: Sikh scripture, ancient Chinese teacher, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Golden Rule in many traditions» of the religion ethics
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# The Golden Rule in many traditions, sentence 15

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Sikh scripture teaches seeing all people as equal, and the ancient Chinese teacher Confucius said: "Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself".

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**Who acts:** Sikh scripture, ancient Chinese teacher, you · **What happens:** teach, see, say, not impose, not wish · **To what, where:** people, others · **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 (Sikh scripture, ancient Chinese teacher, you), 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:15
# text = Sikh scripture teaches seeing all people as equal, and the ancient Chinese teacher Confucius said: "Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself".
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Sikh	sikh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	scripture	scripture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound
3	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
13	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound
15	Confucius	Confucius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	impose	impose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Sikh scripture |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Sikh scripture *not said here* | all people |  |  |  | as equal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus as equal=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the ancient Chinese teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **impose** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  | others |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | for yourself | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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