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title: Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to runn… — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities. Who acts: Enslaved people. A sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 16

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Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.

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**Who acts:** Enslaved people · **What happens:** enslave, resist, run away, build · **To what, where:** many ways, free communities

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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 people), 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:16
# text = Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	resisted	resist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	revolts	revolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	building	build	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
17	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **resist** | past | Enslaved people |  |  | many ways and revolts on ships |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run away** | gerund | Enslaved people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | gerund | Enslaved people *not said here* | free communities |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset community=Product |

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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:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:16`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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