--- title: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, C… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics description: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, later the Tuscarora, under a Great Law of Peace; clan mothers chose chiefs and could remove them. Who acts: Haudenosaunee Confederacy, clan mothers. 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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 (Haudenosaunee Confederacy, clan mothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:13 # text = The Haudenosaunee Confederacy united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, later the Tuscarora, under a Great Law of Peace; clan mothers chose chiefs and could remove them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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 Confederacy confederacy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 united unite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Mohawk Mohawk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Oneida Oneida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Onondaga Onondaga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Cayuga Cayuga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Seneca Seneca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Tuscarora Tuscarora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Law Law PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Peace Peace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 clan clan NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 remove remove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **unite** | past | the Haudenosaunee Confederacy | the Mohawk and Oneida and Onondaga and Cayuga and Seneca and the Tuscarora | | a Great Law of Peace | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mohawk=Patient | | 2 | **choose** | past | clan mothers | chiefs | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | | 3 | **remove** | could | clan mothers *not said here* | chiefs *= chief* | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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