--- title: Hindus say "Satyameva jayate", "Truth alone triumphs", now India's n… — Why honesty matters: trust holds everything toge… · tree and pragmatics description: Hindus say "Satyameva jayate", "Truth alone triumphs", now India's national motto, and one of the five Buddhist precepts is to avoid false speech. Who acts: Hindus, one. 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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 (Hindus, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:17 # text = Hindus say "Satyameva jayate", "Truth alone triumphs", now India's national motto, and one of the five Buddhist precepts is to avoid false speech. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hindus Hindu 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 `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Satyameva Satyameva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 jayate jayate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 9 Truth Truth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 triumphs triumph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 15 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 motto motto NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 Buddhist Buddhist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 precepts precept NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 30 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | Hindus | Satyameva jayate | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent jayate=Theme triumph=Manner | | 2 | **is** | present | one of the five Buddhist precepts | | | | | avoid *property* | tree rules | 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. 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