--- title: Most enslaved Africans were taken to Brazil and the Caribbean, and f… — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics description: Most enslaved Africans were taken to Brazil and the Caribbean, and fewer than half a million directly to North America; Brazil alone took more than any other country. Who acts: Brazil. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brazil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:13 # text = Most enslaved Africans were taken to Brazil and the Caribbean, and fewer than half a million directly to North America; Brazil alone took more than any other country. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 Africans african PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Caribbean Caribbean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 17 det:predet _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 18 directly directly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 alone alone ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enslave** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | past · passive | | Most enslaved Africans | Brazil and the Caribbean | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to brazil=Destination | | 3 | **take** | past | Brazil | more | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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. **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:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/12/) - next →: [The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/)