The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 5
A famous drawing of the slave ship Brookes in 1788 showed this and helped turn British opinion against the trade.
Who acts: famous drawing, slave ship · What happens: show, help, turn, draw · To what, where: this, British opinion
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 (famous drawing, slave ship), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drawing | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drawing | amod |
| 3 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 6 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ship | compound |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawing | nmod |
| 8 | Brookes | Brookes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ship | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1788 | case |
| 10 | 1788 | 1788 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 drawing | nmod |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 showed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 helped | cc |
| 14 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 showed | conj |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 helped | xcomp |
| 16 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 opinion | amod |
| 17 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obj |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 trade | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trade | det |
| 20 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | a famous drawing of the slave ship in 1788 | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | help | past | a famous drawing of the slave ship in 1788 not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | infinitive | a famous drawing of the slave ship in 1788 not said here | British opinion | against the trade | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | |||
| 4 | draw | the slave ship | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=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:5.
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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