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title: Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainl… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young. Who acts: enslaved Africans, many. A sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Food and farming around the world, sentence 15

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Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.

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**Who acts:** enslaved Africans, many · **What happens:** work, enslave, die · **To what, where:** cane plantations, brutal conditions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» 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 (enslaved Africans, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:15
# text = Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.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): no change
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	Africans	African	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · passive | enslaved Africans | cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean |  | brutal conditions |  | mainly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Material |
| 2 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past | many |  |  |  |  | young *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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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