United Kingdom, sentence 76

From Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», 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.

However, with pressure from the abolitionist movement, Parliament banned the trade in 1807, banned slavery in the British Empire in 1833, and Britain took a leading role in the movement to abolish slavery worldwide through the blockade of Africa and pressing other nations to end their trade with a series of treaties.

Who acts: Parliament, Britain, parliaments · What happens: ban, take, lead, abolish, press, end · To what, where: trade, 1807, slavery, British Empire, leading role, movement

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parliament, Britain, parliaments), 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	However	however	ADV	_	11 banned	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 pressure	case
4	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 banned	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 movement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 movement	det
7	abolitionist	abolitionist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 movement	compound
8	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pressure	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pressure	punct
10	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 banned	nsubj
11	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trade	det
13	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 banned	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 1807	case
15	1807	1807	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 banned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 banned	punct
17	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 banned	conj
18	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 banned	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Empire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Empire	det
21	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Empire	amod
22	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 banned	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 1833	case
24	1833	1833	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 banned	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
27	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 banned	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 role	det
30	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 role	amod
31	role	role	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 movement	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 movement	det
34	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 abolish	mark
36	abolish	abolish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 took	advcl
37	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 abolish	obj
38	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	_	36 abolish	advmod
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 blockade	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 blockade	det
41	blockade	blockade	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 abolish	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Africa	case
43	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 blockade	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 pressing	cc
45	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 abolish	advcl
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 nations	amod
47	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 pressing	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 end	mark
49	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 pressing	advcl
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 trade	nmod:poss
51	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 end	obj
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 series	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 series	det
54	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 end	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 treaties	case
56	treaties	treaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 series	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 banned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ban	past	Parliament	the trade	1807	with pressure from the abolitionist movement; however property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme
2	ban	past	Parliament not said here	slavery	the British Empire	in 1833	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer slavery=Theme
3	take	past	Britain	a leading role	the movement		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent role=Value in movement=Location
4	lead	gerund					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
5	abolish	to-infinitive	Britain not said here	slavery	the blockade of Africa	worldwide property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Theme
6	press	gerund	Britain not said here	other nations			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Theme
7	end	to-infinitive	Britain not said here	parliaments's trade		with a series of treaties	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector trade=Eventuality with series=Subeventuality
8	blockade			Africa			nom blockade «act transitive»: of=patient
9	trade		parliaments = parliament				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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