Slavery and its abolition, sentence 7
The voyage across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage; people were chained and crowded into ships for weeks, and many died.
Who acts: many · What happens: call, chain, crowd, die · To what, where: voyage, people, ships · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 voyage | det |
| 2 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 Atlantic | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Atlantic | det |
| 5 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 voyage | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Passage | det |
| 9 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Passage | compound |
| 10 | Passage | Passage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 chained | punct |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chained | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chained | aux:pass |
| 14 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 called | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crowded | cc |
| 16 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chained | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 ships | case |
| 18 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crowded | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 weeks | case |
| 20 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ships | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 died | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 died | cc |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 died | nsubj |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chained | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past · passive | the voyage across the Atlantic | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | chain | past · passive | people | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | crowd | participle | ships for weeks | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ship=Destination | |||||
| 4 | die | past | many | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:7.
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 ×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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