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title: Brazil received about 4.9 million enslaved Africans, more than any o… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Brazil received about 4.9 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country, and in 1888 it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery. Who acts: Brazil, population. A sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 13

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Brazil received about 4.9 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country, and in 1888 it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.

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**Who acts:** Brazil, population · **What happens:** receive, enslave, be, abolish · **To what, where:** 4.9 million, 1888, last country, Americas, slavery

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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 (Brazil, population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:13
# text = Brazil received about 4.9 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country, and in 1888 it was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	4.9	4.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nummod
5	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
6	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	flat	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	appos	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1888	1888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	abolish	abolish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
28	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | Brazil | 4.9 million |  | 1888 |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent million=Theme in 1888=Location |
| 2 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | population | the last country |  | the Americas |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **abolish** | to-infinitive | Brazil *not said here* | slavery |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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 ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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