--- title: When Britain ended slavery, it paid £20 million to slave owners for… — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics description: When Britain ended slavery, it paid £20 million to slave owners for their "lost property" and nothing to the people who had been enslaved. Who acts: Britain, slavery. 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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 (Britain, slavery), 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:20 # text = When Britain ended slavery, it paid £20 million to slave owners for their "lost property" and nothing to the people who had been enslaved. # 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 ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 £ £ SYM $ _ 7 obj _ _ 9 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 compound _ _ 10 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 17 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | past | Britain | slavery | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector slavery=Eventuality | | 2 | **pay** | past | slavery | | | | | to slave owners; for owners's lost property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent £=Asset for property=Theme | | 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **enslave** | past · perfect · passive | | the people | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:20`. **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 ×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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/19/) - next →: [The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/)