Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 55
From Wikipedia, «Antigua and Barbuda», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, affecting the economy.
What happens: abolish, affect · To what, where: Slavery, British Empire, economy
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Antigua and Barbuda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 abolished | aux:pass |
| 3 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Empire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Empire | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Empire | amod |
| 7 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 abolished | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1833 | case |
| 9 | 1833 | 1833 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 abolished | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 affecting | punct |
| 11 | affecting | affect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 abolished | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 economy | det |
| 13 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 affecting | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abolished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abolish | past · passive | Slavery | the British Empire | in 1833 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | affect | gerund | the economy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus economy=Experiencer |
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.
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