Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 13
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, later the Tuscarora, under a Great Law of Peace; clan mothers chose chiefs and could remove them.
Who acts: Haudenosaunee Confederacy, clan mothers · What happens: unite, choose, remove · To what, where: Mohawk, Great Law, chiefs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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 (Haudenosaunee Confederacy, clan mothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Confederacy | det |
| 2 | Haudenosaunee | Haudenosaunee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Confederacy | compound |
| 3 | Confederacy | confederacy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 united | nsubj |
| 4 | united | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mohawk | det |
| 6 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 united | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Oneida | punct |
| 8 | Oneida | Oneida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mohawk | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Onondaga | punct |
| 10 | Onondaga | Onondaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mohawk | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cayuga | punct |
| 12 | Cayuga | Cayuga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mohawk | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Seneca | cc |
| 14 | Seneca | Seneca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mohawk | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tuscarora | punct |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 Tuscarora | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tuscarora | det |
| 18 | Tuscarora | Tuscarora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mohawk | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Law | punct |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 Law | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Law | det |
| 22 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Law | amod |
| 23 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 united | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Peace | case |
| 25 | Peace | Peace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Law | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 chose | punct |
| 27 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mothers | compound |
| 28 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 chose | nsubj |
| 29 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 united | parataxis |
| 30 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 chose | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 remove | cc |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 remove | aux |
| 33 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 chose | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 remove | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 united | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unite | past | the Haudenosaunee Confederacy | the Mohawk and Oneida and Onondaga and Cayuga and Seneca and the Tuscarora | a Great Law of Peace | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mohawk=Patient | |||
| 2 | choose | past | clan mothers | chiefs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remove | could | clan mothers not said here | chiefs = chief | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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