Dominica, sentence 67

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In 1831, reflecting a liberalisation of official British racial attitudes, the Brown Privilege Bill conferred political and social rights on free blacks (mostly free people of colour, who generally were of mixed race, with African and European ancestry).

Who acts: Brown Privilege, free people, official British racial attitudes · What happens: reflect, confer, mix, be, liberalise · To what, where: liberalisation, political rights, free blacks, 1831

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brown Privilege, free people, official British racial attitudes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1831	case
2	1831	1831	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1831	punct
4	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 1831	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 liberalisation	det
6	liberalisation	liberalisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reflecting	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 attitudes	case
8	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 attitudes	amod
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 attitudes	amod
10	racial	racial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 attitudes	amod
11	attitudes	attitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 liberalisation	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 conferred	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Privilege	det
14	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Privilege	amod
15	Privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 conferred	nsubj
16	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Privilege	appos
17	conferred	confer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 attitudes	conj
18	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rights	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 social	cc
20	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 political	conj
21	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 conferred	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 blacks	case
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 blacks	amod
24	blacks	black	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 conferred	obl
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 people	punct
26	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	27 free	advmod
27	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 people	amod
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 blacks	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 colour	case
30	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 people	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 race	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 race	nsubj
33	generally	generally	ADV	_	37 race	advmod
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 race	cop
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 race	case
36	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 race	amod
37	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 people	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ancestry	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	43 ancestry	case
40	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ancestry	amod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 European	cc
42	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 African	conj
43	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 race	conj
44	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 people	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 1831	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reflect	gerund		a liberalisation of official British racial attitudes			tree rules
2	confer	past	the Brown Privilege	political rights	free blacks		tree rules
3	mix	participle					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	free people of colour			of mixed race and African ancestry; African ancestry conj; generally property	tree rules
6	liberalise		official British racial attitudes				nom liberalisation «act intransitive»: of=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.

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Dominica, sentence 67