Slavery and its abolition, sentence 10
Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wilberforce argued in Parliament for years to end the slave trade.
Who acts: Olaudah, William · What happens: enslave, write, argue, end · To what, where: Olaudah, life story, Parliament, slave trade
This is a sentence of the lesson «Slavery and its abolition» of the history 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 (Olaudah, William), 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 | Olaudah | Olaudah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | Equiano | Equiano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Olaudah | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 enslaved | punct |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | _ | 5 enslaved | advmod |
| 5 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Olaudah | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Olaudah | punct |
| 7 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 story | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | compound |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 argued | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 argued | cc |
| 13 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 argued | nsubj |
| 14 | Wilberforce | Wilberforce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 William | flat |
| 15 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrote | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Parliament | case |
| 17 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 argued | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 argued | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 end | mark |
| 21 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 argued | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trade | det |
| 23 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trade | compound |
| 24 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enslave | participle | Olaudah not said here | once property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | past | Olaudah | Olaudah's life story | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | past | William | Parliament | year | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | end | to-infinitive | William not said here | the slave trade | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trade=Eventuality |
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:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:10.
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): 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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