When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 13
Enslaved people in Haiti rose up in 1791 and won independence in 1804, making the first Black republic; in 1825 France forced Haiti to pay a huge sum before France would accept it as a free country, and the debt took Haiti over a century to pay off.
Who acts: Enslaved people, France, Haiti, debt · What happens: enslave, rise up, win, make, force, pay · To what, where: 1791, independence, 1804, first Black republic, Haiti, 1825
This is a sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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, France, Haiti, debt), 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 | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Haiti | case |
| 4 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 rose | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1791 | case |
| 8 | 1791 | 1791 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 rose | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 won | cc |
| 10 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 11 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 won | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1804 | case |
| 13 | 1804 | 1804 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 won | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 making | punct |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 won | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 republic | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 republic | amod |
| 18 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 republic | amod |
| 19 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 making | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 forced | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1825 | case |
| 22 | 1825 | 1825 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 forced | obl |
| 23 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 forced | nsubj |
| 24 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | parataxis |
| 25 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 forced | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pay | mark |
| 27 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 forced | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sum | det |
| 29 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sum | amod |
| 30 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pay | obj |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 accept | mark |
| 32 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 accept | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 accept | aux |
| 34 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 pay | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 accept | obj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 country | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 country | det |
| 38 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 country | amod |
| 39 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 accept | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 took | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 took | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 debt | det |
| 43 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 took | nsubj |
| 44 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forced | conj |
| 45 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 took | obj |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 century | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 century | det |
| 48 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 took | obl |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 pay | mark |
| 50 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 took | advcl |
| 51 | off | off | ADP | _ | 50 pay | compound:prt |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | 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 | enslave | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | rise up | past | Enslaved people in Haiti | 1791 | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1791=Location | ||||
| 3 | win | past | Enslaved people in Haiti not said here | independence | 1804 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | make | gerund | Enslaved people in Haiti not said here | the first Black republic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset republic=Product | ||||
| 5 | force | past | France | Haiti | 1825 | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent haiti=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | Haiti not said here | a huge sum | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Asset | ||||
| 7 | accept | would | France | sum | as a free country | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as country=Attribute | |||
| 8 | take | past | the debt | Haiti | century | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument haiti=Destination | |||
| 9 | pay off | to-infinitive | the debt not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:13.
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): 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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