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title: Many people believe each person has a soul, the part that thinks, lo… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people believe each person has a soul, the part that thinks, loves and is really «them»; it cannot be seen like a heart or brain. Who acts: Many people, person, part. A sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 7

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Many people believe each person has a soul, the part that thinks, loves and is really «them»; it cannot be seen like a heart or brain.

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**Who acts:** Many people, person, part · **What happens:** believe, have, think, love, be, not see · **To what, where:** soul, people, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 people, person, part), 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:7
# text = Many people believe each person has a soul, the part that thinks, loves and is really «them»; it cannot be seen like a heart or brain.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	conj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc
32	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | each person | a soul |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the part |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** | present | the part *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the part *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **see** | can · passive |  | person |  |  |  | like a heart or brain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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