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title: Five, later six, nations, including the Mohawk and Seneca, formed th… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: Five, later six, nations, including the Mohawk and Seneca, formed the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a league of peace with a council to settle quarrels by talking. Who acts: Five six nations. A sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Native peoples of North America, sentence 14

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Five, later six, nations, including the Mohawk and Seneca, formed the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a league of peace with a council to settle quarrels by talking.

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**Who acts:** Five six nations · **What happens:** form, settle, talk · **To what, where:** Haudenosaunee Confederacy, quarrels

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» 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 (Five six 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:14
# text = Five, later six, nations, including the Mohawk and Seneca, formed the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a league of peace with a council to settle quarrels by talking.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	including	include	ADP	VBG	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Mohawk	Mohawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Seneca	Seneca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Haudenosaunee	Haudenosaunee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Confederacy	confederacy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
28	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past | Five six nations | the Haudenosaunee Confederacy |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confederacy=Theme |
| 2 | **settle** | to-infinitive | Five six nations *not said here* | quarrels |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme quarrel=Location |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | Five six nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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