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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 (enslaved people, free communities, Palmares, soldiers), 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:17 # text = Escaped enslaved people formed free communities called maroon settlements in Jamaica, Suriname, Brazil and elsewhere, and Palmares in Brazil lasted for most of the 1600s; they were often hidden in mountains and forests, where soldiers found them hard to reach. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 communities community NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 maroon maroon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 settlements settlement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Jamaica Jamaica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Suriname Suriname PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 elsewhere elsewhere ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Palmares Palmares PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 40 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:xcomp 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **escape** | past | | enslaved people | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **enslave** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **form** | participle | enslaved people *not said here* | free communities | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location community=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | free communities *not said here* | maroon settlements | | Jamaica and Suriname and Brazil | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent settlement=Recipient | | 5 | **last** | past | Palmares in Brazil | | | | | for most of the 1600s | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hide** | past · passive | | people | | mountains and forests | | often *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in mountain=Location | | 7 | **find** | past | soldiers | people | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 8 | **reach** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. **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:17`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/16/) - next →: [The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/)