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title: On the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, chiefs won respect by givi… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, chiefs won respect by giving huge gifts at feasts called potlatches. Who acts: chiefs, feasts. A sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 9

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On the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, chiefs won respect by giving huge gifts at feasts called potlatches.

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**Who acts:** chiefs, feasts · **What happens:** won, give, call · **To what, where:** respect, Pacific Northwest Coast, huge gifts, feasts, potlatches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (chiefs, feasts), 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:9
# text = On the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada, chiefs won respect by giving huge gifts at feasts called potlatches.
# 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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Northwest	Northwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	won	won	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	potlatches	potlatch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **won** | past | chiefs | respect |  | the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | chiefs *not said here* | huge gifts |  | feasts |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent gift=Theme at feast=Asset |
| 3 | **call** | participle | feasts *not said here* | potlatches |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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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