Dakar, sentence 34
From Wikipedia, «Dakar», 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.
The slave trade continued at Gorée until 1848, when it was finally abolished throughout all French territories.
Who acts: slave trade · What happens: continue, abolish · To what, where: Gorée, trade
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave trade), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trade | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trade | compound |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Gorée | case |
| 6 | Gorée | Gorée | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 continued | obl |
| 7 | until | until | ADP | _ | 8 1848 | case |
| 8 | 1848 | 1848 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 continued | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 abolished | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 abolished | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 abolished | aux:pass |
| 13 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 14 abolished | advmod |
| 14 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 continued | advcl |
| 15 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 18 territories | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 territories | det |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 territories | amod |
| 18 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 abolished | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the slave trade | Gorée | until 1848 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | abolish | past · passive | trade | throughout all French territories | finally property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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