Food and farming around the world, sentence 15
Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.
Who acts: enslaved Africans, many · What happens: work, enslave, die · To what, where: cane plantations, brutal conditions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» 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 (enslaved Africans, many), 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 | Sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cane | compound |
| 2 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plantations | compound |
| 3 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 worked | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Brazil | case |
| 5 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 plantations | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Caribbean | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caribbean | det |
| 8 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brazil | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 worked | aux:pass |
| 10 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 10 worked | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Africans | case |
| 13 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Africans | amod |
| 14 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 worked | obl:agent |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 conditions | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 conditions | case |
| 17 | brutal | brutal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 conditions | amod |
| 18 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 worked | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 died | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 died | nsubj |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 conditions | acl:relcl |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 died | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · passive | enslaved Africans | cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean | brutal conditions | mainly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Material | ||
| 2 | enslave | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | many | young property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.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): 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.
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