--- title: Among peoples of the Pacific Northwest, chiefs held potlatch feasts… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: Among peoples of the Pacific Northwest, chiefs held potlatch feasts where they gave away food, blankets and goods; Canada banned the potlatch from 1885 to 1951. Who acts: chiefs, Canada. 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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 (chiefs, Canada), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:15 # text = Among peoples of the Pacific Northwest, chiefs held potlatch feasts where they gave away food, blankets and goods; Canada banned the potlatch from 1885 to 1951. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Among among ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Northwest Northwest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 10 potlatch potlatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 feasts feast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 away away ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 blankets blanket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 potlatch potlatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1885 1885 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 1951 1951 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | chiefs | potlatch feasts | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | | 2 | **give away** | past | chiefs *= chief* | food and blankets and goods | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 3 | **ban** | past | Canada | the potlatch | | 1885 to 1951 | | among peoples of the Pacific Northwest | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer potlatch=Beneficiary from 1885=Eventuality | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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