Slavery and its abolition, sentence 3
Ordinary people helped too, like a whole school deciding not to buy one brand of sweets: in Britain thousands stopped buying slave-grown sugar and signed petitions until slavery was banned.
Who acts: Ordinary people, whole school, thousands · What happens: help, decide, not buy, stop, buy, grow · To what, where: one brand, Britain, grown sugar, petitions, slavery, sweets
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 (Ordinary people, whole school, thousands), 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 | Ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 helped | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deciding | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 deciding | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 school | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 school | amod |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deciding | nsubj |
| 10 | deciding | decide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 helped | advcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 buy | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 deciding | xcomp |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 brand | nummod |
| 15 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sweets | case |
| 17 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brand | nmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 stopped | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 thousands | case |
| 20 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 stopped | obl |
| 21 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stopped | nsubj |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 deciding | parataxis |
| 23 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 stopped | xcomp |
| 24 | slave | slave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grown | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 slave | punct |
| 26 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 sugar | amod |
| 27 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 buying | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 signed | cc |
| 29 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stopped | conj |
| 30 | petitions | petition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 signed | obj |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 banned | mark |
| 32 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 banned | aux:pass |
| 34 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 signed | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Ordinary people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | decide | gerund | a whole school | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | a whole school not said here | one brand of sweets | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | thousands | Britain | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | buy | gerund | thousands not said here | grown sugar | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | sign | past | thousands not said here | petitions | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Destination | ||||
| 8 | ban | past · passive | slavery | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 9 | brand | sweets | nom brand «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:3.
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 ×2, 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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