Slavery and its abolition, sentence 8
Enslaved people worked on plantations without pay or freedom, and families could be sold apart, yet they kept music, faith, stories and families alive.
Who acts: Enslaved people, people · What happens: work, sell, keep · To what, where: families, music
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 (Enslaved people, people), 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 | Enslaved | enslave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 plantations | case |
| 5 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worked | obl |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 pay | case |
| 7 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 freedom | cc |
| 9 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sold | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sold | cc |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sold | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sold | aux:pass |
| 15 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 worked | conj |
| 16 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 15 sold | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | nsubj |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | conj |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 faith | punct |
| 23 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 music | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stories | punct |
| 25 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worked | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 families | cc |
| 27 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stories | conj |
| 28 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kept | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | Enslaved people | without pay or freedom; on plantations | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plantation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sell | could · passive | families | apart property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | people | music and faith | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
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:8.
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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