Slavery and its abolition, sentence 11
Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1833.
Who acts: Britain · What happens: ban · To what, where: slave trade, 1807
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 (Britain), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trade | det |
| 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 | _ | 11 most | case |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 slavery | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 empire | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 empire | nmod:poss |
| 14 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 most | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1833 | case |
| 16 | 1833 | 1833 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 empire | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 banned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | past | Britain | the slave trade | 1807 and slavery in most of trade's empire in 1833 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme |
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:11.
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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