Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 17
Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1834; the US ended slavery in 1865, Brazil in 1888, and Mauritania made it illegal in 1981; forced labour still happens illegally today.
Who acts: Britain, US, Mauritania, forced labour · What happens: ban, end, make, force, happen · To what, where: slave trade, 1807, slavery, 1865
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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 (Britain, US, Mauritania, forced labour), 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 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 banned | nsubj |
| 2 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trade | det |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | compound |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 banned | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1807 | case |
| 7 | 1807 | 1807 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 banned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slavery | cc |
| 9 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 1807 | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 empire | case |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 empire | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 empire | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 empire | nmod:poss |
| 14 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 banned | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1834 | case |
| 16 | 1834 | 1834 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 empire | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 slavery | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 US | det |
| 19 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ended | nsubj |
| 20 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 banned | conj |
| 21 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ended | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1865 | case |
| 23 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 ended | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Brazil | punct |
| 25 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 slavery | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 1888 | case |
| 27 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 banned | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 30 | Mauritania | Mauritania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 banned | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 1981 | case |
| 35 | 1981 | 1981 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 illegal | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 happens | punct |
| 37 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 labour | amod |
| 38 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 happens | nsubj |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 happens | advmod |
| 40 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | ccomp |
| 41 | illegally | illegally | ADV | _ | 40 happens | advmod |
| 42 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 happens | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 banned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | past | Britain | the slave trade | 1807 and slavery | in slavery's most empire in 1834; in 1888 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme | ||
| 2 | end | past | the US | slavery Brazil | 1865 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector slavery=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | make | past | Mauritania | slavery | illegal property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | happen | present | forced labour | still; today | illegally property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:17.
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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