Slavery and its abolition, sentence 15
About four million people in the USA became free when slavery ended.
Who acts: million people, slavery · What happens: become, ended
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 (million people, 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 million | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 million | compound |
| 3 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 people | nummod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 became | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 USA | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 USA | det |
| 7 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 ended | advmod |
| 11 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ended | nsubj |
| 12 | ended | ended | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | million people in the USA | free property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ended | past | slavery | tree rules |
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:15.
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): 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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