The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 20

When Britain ended slavery, it paid £20 million to slave owners for their "lost property" and nothing to the people who had been enslaved.

Who acts: Britain, slavery · What happens: end, pay, lose, enslave · To what, where: slavery, people

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), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 paid	mark
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	advcl
4	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ended	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slavery	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paid	nsubj
7	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	£	£	SYM	_	7 paid	obj
9	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 million	compound
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 £	nummod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 owners	case
12	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 owners	compound
13	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 property	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 property	nmod:poss
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 property	punct
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 property	amod
18	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 property	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nothing	cc
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 property	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 people	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 nothing	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 enslaved	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 enslaved	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 enslaved	aux:pass
28	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 people	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 paid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	end	past	Britain	slavery		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector slavery=Eventuality
2	pay	past	slavery		to slave owners; for owners's lost property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent £=Asset for property=Theme
3	lose in a quote	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	enslave	past · perfect · passive		the people		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:20.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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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