From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 9
On the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, chiefs won respect by giving huge gifts at feasts called potlatches.
Who acts: chiefs, feasts · What happens: won, give, call · To what, where: respect, Pacific Northwest Coast, huge gifts, feasts, potlatches · Speech: someone speaks here
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, feasts), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 Coast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Coast | det |
| 3 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Coast | compound |
| 4 | Northwest | Northwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Coast | compound |
| 5 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 won | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Canada | case |
| 7 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Coast | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chiefs | punct |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 won | nsubj |
| 10 | won | won | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 won | obj |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 giving | mark |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 won | advcl |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gifts | amod |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 giving | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 feasts | case |
| 17 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 giving | obl |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 feasts | acl |
| 19 | potlatches | potlatch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 won | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | won | past | chiefs | respect | the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | chiefs not said here | huge gifts | feasts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent gift=Theme at feast=Asset | |||
| 3 | call | participle | feasts not said here | potlatches | 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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:9.
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): no change. 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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