Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 4

And many peoples kept laws in memory, speeches and objects, like the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace, remembered with belts of shell beads called wampum.

Who acts: many peoples, shell beads · What happens: keep, remember, call · To what, where: laws, memory, Haudenosaunee Great Law, wampum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history 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 peoples, shell beads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peoples	amod
3	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 memory	case
7	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laws	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 speeches	punct
9	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laws	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 objects	cc
11	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laws	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Law	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	17 Law	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Law	det
15	Haudenosaunee	Haudenosaunee	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Law	compound
16	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Law	amod
17	Law	Law	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Peace	case
19	Peace	Peace	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Law	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 remembered	punct
21	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Law	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 belts	case
23	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 remembered	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 beads	case
25	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beads	compound
26	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 belts	nmod
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 beads	acl
28	wampum	wampum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	many peoples	laws and speeches and objects	memory	like the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent law=Theme in memory=Location
2	remember	participle		the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace not said here		with belts of shell beads	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle	shell beads not said here	wampum			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:history:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:4.

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, 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.

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