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title: The Haudenosaunee nations joined in a league of peace to settle quar… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: The Haudenosaunee nations joined in a league of peace to settle quarrels by talking. A sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Native peoples of North America, sentence 5

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The Haudenosaunee nations joined in a league of peace to settle quarrels by talking.

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**What happens:** join, settle, talk · **To what, where:** Haudenosaunee nations, 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: 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:5
# text = The Haudenosaunee nations joined in a league of peace 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Haudenosaunee	Haudenosaunee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
12	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **join** | past · passive |  | the Haudenosaunee nations |  |  |  | in a league of peace | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **settle** | to-infinitive |  | quarrels |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme quarrel=Location |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:5`.

**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 ×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.

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

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