The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 16
Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.
Who acts: Enslaved people · What happens: enslave, resist, run away, build · To what, where: many ways, free communities
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 (Enslaved people), 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 | Enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 resisted | nsubj |
| 3 | resisted | resist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ways | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ways | amod |
| 6 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 resisted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 revolts | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 revolts | case |
| 9 | revolts | revolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ways | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ships | case |
| 11 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 revolts | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 13 running | mark |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 revolts | acl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 running | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 building | cc |
| 16 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 running | conj |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 communities | amod |
| 18 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 building | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resisted | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
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- voice
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enslave | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | resist | past | Enslaved people | many ways and revolts on ships | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run away | gerund | Enslaved people not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | build | gerund | Enslaved people not said here | free communities | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset community=Product |
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:16.
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, 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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