Slavery and its abolition, sentence 17
New laws in the 1960s banned segregation, keeping Black and white people apart by law, and protected Black Americans' right to vote.
Who acts: New laws · What happens: ban, keep, protect, vote · To what, where: segregation, Black people, right
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 (New laws), 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 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 laws | amod |
| 2 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 banned | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1960s | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 1960s | det |
| 5 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 laws | nmod |
| 6 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | segregation | segregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 banned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeping | punct |
| 9 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 banned | advcl |
| 10 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 white | cc |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Black | conj |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keeping | obj |
| 14 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 16 law | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 law | case |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 protected | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 protected | cc |
| 19 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 banned | conj |
| 20 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Americans | amod |
| 21 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 right | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | ' | PART | _ | 21 Americans | case |
| 23 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 protected | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 vote | mark |
| 25 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 right | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | New laws in the 1960s | segregation | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer segregation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | New laws in the 1960s not said here | Black people | by law | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme by law=Location | |||
| 3 | protect | past | New laws in the 1960s not said here | Black Americans's right | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | vote | to-infinitive | New laws in the 1960s not said here | Black Americans's right not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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