From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 15

Among peoples of the Pacific Northwest, chiefs held potlatch feasts where they gave away food, blankets and goods; Canada banned the potlatch from 1885 to 1951.

Who acts: chiefs, Canada · What happens: hold, give away, ban · To what, where: potlatch feasts, food, potlatch, 1885

This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (chiefs, Canada), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	2 peoples	case
2	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 banned	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Northwest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Northwest	det
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Northwest	compound
6	Northwest	Northwest	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 peoples	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feasts	punct
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 peoples	acl
10	potlatch	potlatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feasts	compound
11	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obj
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 gave	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feasts	acl:relcl
15	away	away	ADP	_	14 gave	compound:prt
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blankets	punct
18	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 food	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 goods	cc
20	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 blankets	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 banned	punct
22	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 banned	nsubj
23	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 potlatch	det
25	potlatch	potlatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 banned	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 1885	case
27	1885	1885	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 banned	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 1951	case
29	1951	1951	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 1885	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 banned	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	hold	past	chiefs	potlatch feasts			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
2	give away	past	chiefs = chief	food and blankets and goods			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	ban	past	Canada	the potlatch	1885 to 1951	among peoples of the Pacific Northwest	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer potlatch=Beneficiary from 1885=Eventuality

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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:15.

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): R7-rel-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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