--- title: On the Great Plains nations such as the Lakota followed huge herds o… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics description: On the Great Plains nations such as the Lakota followed huge herds of bison, using almost every part for food, clothing, tools and tipi covers, and after the Spanish brought horses they became expert riders. Who acts: Plains nations, Spanish, nations. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plains nations, Spanish, nations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:12 # text = On the Great Plains nations such as the Lakota followed huge herds of bison, using almost every part for food, clothing, tools and tipi covers, and after the Spanish brought horses they became expert riders. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 017-native-peoples-of-north-america.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Plains Plains PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 5 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Lakota Lakota PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 bison bison NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 17 almost almost ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 clothing clothing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 tipi tipi NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 covers cover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 after after SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Spanish Spanish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 35 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 38 expert expert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 riders rider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | Plains nations such the Lakota | huge herds of bison | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | | 2 | **use** | gerund | Plains nations such the Lakota *not said here* | every part | | | | for food and clothing and tools and tipi covers | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Theme for food=Eventuality | | 3 | **bring** | past | the Spanish | | horses | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | | 4 | **become** | past | nations *= nation* | expert riders | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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