--- title: Many Indigenous peoples, and the Shinto tradition of Japan, believe… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics description: Many Indigenous peoples, and the Shinto tradition of Japan, believe that nature has spirits; Christians believe God made nature and cares for it. Who acts: Many Indigenous peoples, nature, Christians, God. A sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Souls, ghosts and stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/) / 16 # Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 16 Many Indigenous peoples, and the Shinto tradition of Japan, believe that nature has spirits; Christians believe God made nature and cares for it. **Who acts:** Many Indigenous peoples, nature, Christians, God · **What happens:** believe, have, make, care · **To what, where:** spirits, nature · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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 (Many Indigenous peoples, nature, Christians, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:16 # text = Many Indigenous peoples, and the Shinto tradition of Japan, believe that nature has spirits; Christians believe God made nature and cares for it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Indigenous indigenous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Shinto Shinto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 20 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | Many Indigenous peoples and the Shinto tradition of Japan | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | nature | spirits | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient | | 3 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | past | God | nature | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Product | | 5 | **care** | present | God *not said here* | | | | | for nature | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=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:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:16`. **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: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/15/) - next →: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/)