Slavery and its abolition, sentence 6

In the triangle of trade, ships took goods from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar, cotton and tobacco back to Europe.

Who acts: ships · What happens: take, enslave · To what, where: goods, Africa, triangle, people

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 (ships), 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	_	3 triangle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 triangle	det
3	triangle	triangle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 trade	case
5	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 triangle	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 triangle	punct
7	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 took	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Europe	case
11	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 enslaved	punct
15	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 enslaved	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Africa	case
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 people	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Americas	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Americas	det
21	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 enslaved	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sugar	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sugar	cc
24	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enslaved	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cotton	punct
26	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sugar	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tobacco	cc
28	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sugar	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	15 enslaved	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Europe	case
31	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 back	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	ships	goods	Africa	the triangle of trade		from Europe	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent goods=Theme from europe=Initial_Location to africa=Destination
2	enslave	past	ships not said here	people		Africa		to the Americas; sugar and cotton and tobacco obl	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:6.

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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