--- title: Jesus put it positively in Matthew 7:12: "Do to others what you woul… — The Golden Rule in many traditions · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus put it positively in Matthew 7:12: "Do to others what you would have them do to you", so it asks us to do good, not only to avoid harm. Who acts: Jesus, you, others, form. 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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, form), 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:2 # text = Jesus put it positively in Matthew 7:12: "Do to others what you would have them do to you", so it asks us to do good, not only to avoid harm. # 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): no change 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 positively positively ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Matthew Matthew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 7:12 7:12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 35 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Jesus | form | | Matthew | | positively *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in matthew=Destination | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | 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 | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | form | | us | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | form *not said here* | good | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | | 7 | **not** **avoid** | to-infinitive | form *not said here* | harm | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent harm=Location | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:038-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions.lesson:2`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [The Golden Rule in many traditions, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/38-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions/1/) - next →: [The Golden Rule in many traditions, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/38-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/38-the-golden-rule-in-many-traditions/)