--- title: Muslims say «Alhamdulillah», which means «praise be to God», when go… — Life is precious: wonder and gratitude · tree and pragmatics description: Muslims say «Alhamdulillah», which means «praise be to God», when good things happen; Jews say blessings called brachot; Christians may say «Thanks be to God». Who acts: Muslims, Alhamdulillah, good things, Jews. 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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 (Muslims, Alhamdulillah, good things, Jews), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:9 # text = Muslims say «Alhamdulillah», which means «praise be to God», when good things happen; Jews say blessings called brachot; Christians may say «Thanks be to God». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Muslims Muslim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 blessings blessing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 brachot brachot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 31 Thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 be be VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Muslims | Alhamdulillah | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent alhamdulillah=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | Alhamdulillah | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | praise | God | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **happen** | present | good things | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jews | blessings | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic | | 6 | **call** | participle | blessings *not said here* | brachot | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | Christians | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | Thanks | | God | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:9`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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