The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 18

The Haitian Revolution from 1791 overthrew slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, and Haiti became independent in 1804.

Who acts: Haitian Revolution, Haiti · What happens: overthrow, become · To what, where: slavery, French colony, 1804

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 (Haitian Revolution, Haiti), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Revolution	det
2	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Revolution	amod
3	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 overthrew	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 1791	case
5	1791	1791	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Revolution	nmod
6	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 overthrew	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 colony	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 colony	det
10	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 colony	amod
11	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 overthrew	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Saint	case
13	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 colony	nmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Domingue	punct
15	Domingue	Domingue	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Saint	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 became	cc
18	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 overthrew	conj
20	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1804	case
22	1804	1804	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 became	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 overthrew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overthrow	past	the Haitian Revolution from 1791	slavery		the French colony of Saint			tree rules
2	become	past	Haiti					in 1804 result; independent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1804=Result

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:18.

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. 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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