The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 13

Most enslaved Africans were taken to Brazil and the Caribbean, and fewer than half a million directly to North America; Brazil alone took more than any other country.

Who acts: Brazil · What happens: enslave, take · To what, where: Most enslaved Africans, Brazil, more

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 Africans	amod
2	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Africans	amod
3	Africans	african	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 taken	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Brazil	case
7	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Caribbean	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Caribbean	det
10	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brazil	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fewer	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 million	cc
13	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 million	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 million	case
15	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	17 million	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 million	det
17	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 taken	conj
18	directly	directly	ADV	_	17 million	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 America	case
20	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 America	compound
21	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 million	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
23	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 took	nsubj
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 Brazil	advmod
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	parataxis
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 took	obj
27	than	than	ADP	_	30 country	case
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 country	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 country	amod
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 more	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	enslave	participle				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	past · passive		Most enslaved Africans	Brazil and the Caribbean	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to brazil=Destination
3	take	past	Brazil	more		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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