Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 13

Brazil received about 4.9 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country, and in 1888 it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.

Who acts: Brazil, population · What happens: receive, enslave, be, abolish · To what, where: 4.9 million, 1888, last country, Americas, slavery

This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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 (Brazil, population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 million	advmod
4	4.9	4.9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 received	obj
6	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Africans	amod
7	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 million	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 more	punct
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 million	appos
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 country	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 country	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 country	amod
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 1888	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 1888	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 1888	case
17	1888	1888	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 received	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 country	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 country	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 country	det
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 country	amod
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 1888	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 Americas	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Americas	det
25	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 country	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 abolish	mark
27	abolish	abolish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 country	acl
28	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 abolish	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 received	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	receive	past	Brazil	4.9 million	1888	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent million=Theme in 1888=Location
2	enslave	participle				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	population	the last country	the Americas	tree rules
4	abolish	to-infinitive	Brazil not said here	slavery		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=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, 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:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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): 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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