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title: Britain banned its slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its co… — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Britain banned its slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its colonies from 1834, while slavery lasted in the USA until 1865 and in Brazil until 1888. Who acts: Britain, slavery, Revolution. A sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» of the geography course of Mova's prim
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# The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 19

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Britain banned its slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its colonies from 1834, while slavery lasted in the USA until 1865 and in Brazil until 1888.

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**Who acts:** Britain, slavery, Revolution · **What happens:** ban, last, trade · **To what, where:** slave trade, 1807, USA

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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 (Britain, slavery, Revolution), 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:19
# text = Britain banned its slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its colonies from 1834, while slavery lasted in the USA until 1865 and in Brazil until 1888.
# 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): no change
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1807	1807	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1834	1834	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	until	until	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1865	1865	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
29	until	until	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1888	1888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **ban** | past | Britain | Revolution's slave trade |  | 1807 and slavery in Revolution's most colonies from 1834 |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme |
| 2 | **last** | past | slavery |  |  | the USA | until 1865; until 1888 |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trade** |  | Revolution |  |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:19`.

**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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