Slavery and its abolition, sentence 4
In the USA slavery ended after the Civil War in 1865, but Black Americans still faced unfair laws until Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others won civil rights in the 1960s.
Who acts: USA slavery, Black Americans, Rosa Parks · What happens: end, face, win · To what, where: 1865, unfair laws, civil rights, 1960s
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 (USA slavery, Black Americans, Rosa Parks), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 slavery | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slavery | det |
| 3 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 slavery | compound |
| 4 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 War | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 War | det |
| 8 | Civil | Civil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 War | flat |
| 9 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1865 | case |
| 11 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 ended | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 faced | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 faced | cc |
| 14 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Americans | amod |
| 15 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 faced | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 faced | advmod |
| 17 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | conj |
| 18 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 laws | amod |
| 19 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 faced | obj |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 won | mark |
| 21 | Rosa | Rosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Parks | compound |
| 22 | Parks | Parks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 won | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Martin | punct |
| 24 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Jr. | compound |
| 25 | Luther | Luther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Martin | flat |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Jr. | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Jr. | Jr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Parks | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 others | cc |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 others | amod |
| 30 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Parks | conj |
| 31 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 faced | advcl |
| 32 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rights | amod |
| 33 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 won | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 1960s | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 1960s | det |
| 36 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 31 won | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the USA slavery | 1865 | after the Civil War | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | face | past | Black Americans | unfair laws | still | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent law=Destination | |||
| 3 | win | past | Rosa Parks and Martin Jr. King and many others | civil rights | the 1960s | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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