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title: In the Ramayana Rama goes into exile (sent away to live far from hom… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Ramayana Rama goes into exile (sent away to live far from home) to keep his father's word; the Qur'an says, "Fulfil every commitment" (Qur'an 17:34); Psalm 15:4-5 praises one who "keeps an oath even when it hurts". Who acts: Rama, Qur'an, Psalm, commitment. A sentence of the lesson «Vows, oat
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# Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 17

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In the Ramayana Rama goes into exile (sent away to live far from home) to keep his father's word; the Qur'an says, "Fulfil every commitment" (Qur'an 17:34); Psalm 15:4-5 praises one who "keeps an oath even when it hurts".

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**Who acts:** Rama, Qur'an, Psalm, commitment, father · **What happens:** go, send away, live, keep, say, fulfil · **To what, where:** Ramayana, home, word, commitment, one, oath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» 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 (Rama, Qur'an, Psalm, commitment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:17
# text = In the Ramayana Rama goes into exile (sent away to live far from home) to keep his father's word; the Qur'an says, "Fulfil every commitment" (Qur'an 17:34); Psalm 15:4-5 praises one who "keeps an oath even when it hurts".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Ramayana	ramayana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	Rama	rama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Qur'an	qur'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	commitment	commitment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Qur'an	Qur'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj
35	17:34	17:34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	15:4-5	15:4-5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	_
40	praises	praise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	obj	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
44	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	even	even	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=50:punct
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Rama |  |  | the Ramayana |  | into exile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into exile=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **send away** | participle | Rama *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | Rama *not said here* |  |  | home |  | far *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Rama *not said here* | Rama's father's word |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Qur'an |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | every commitment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **praise** | present | Psalm | one |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 8 | **keep** *in a quote* | present |  | a oath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 9 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | commitment |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 10 | **word** |  | Rama's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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