The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 19

Britain banned its slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its colonies from 1834, while slavery lasted in the USA until 1865 and in Brazil until 1888.

Who acts: Britain, slavery, Revolution · What happens: ban, last, trade · To what, where: slave trade, 1807, USA

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 (Britain, slavery, Revolution), 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	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 banned	nsubj
2	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 trade	nmod:poss
4	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trade	compound
5	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 banned	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1807	case
7	1807	1807	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 banned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slavery	cc
9	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 1807	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 colonies	case
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 colonies	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 colonies	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 colonies	nmod:poss
14	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slavery	nmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 1834	case
16	1834	1834	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 colonies	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lasted	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 lasted	mark
19	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lasted	nsubj
20	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 banned	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 USA	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 USA	det
23	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lasted	obl
24	until	until	ADP	_	25 1865	case
25	1865	1865	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 lasted	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Brazil	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Brazil	case
28	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lasted	conj
29	until	until	ADP	_	30 1888	case
30	1888	1888	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 lasted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 banned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ban	past	Britain	Revolution's slave trade	1807 and slavery in Revolution's most colonies from 1834		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme
2	last	past	slavery		the USA	until 1865; until 1888	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	trade		Revolution				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:19.

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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