--- title: Under the Spanish encomienda system, colonists were given the right… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: Under the Spanish encomienda system, colonists were given the right to the labour and tribute of Indigenous people, and the friar Bartolomé de las Casas wrote fiercely against its cruelty. Who acts: friar. A sentence of the lesson «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» of the geo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The people who were already there: wha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/) / 8 # The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 8 Under the Spanish encomienda system, colonists were given the right to the labour and tribute of Indigenous people, and the friar Bartolomé de las Casas wrote fiercely against its cruelty. **Who acts:** friar · **What happens:** give, write · **To what, where:** colonists, Spanish encomienda system This is a sentence of the lesson «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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 (friar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:8 # text = Under the Spanish encomienda system, colonists were given the right to the labour and tribute of Indigenous people, and the friar Bartolomé de las Casas wrote fiercely against its cruelty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 036-the-people-who-were-already-there.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Under under ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 encomienda encomienda NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 colonists colonist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 tribute tribute NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 Indigenous Indigenous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 friar friar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 Bartolomé Bartolomé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 25 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 24 flat:foreign _ _ 26 las la PROPN NNP Number=Plur 24 flat _ _ 27 Casas casa PROPN NNP Number=Plur 24 flat _ _ 28 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 fiercely fiercely ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 against against ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 cruelty cruelty NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past · passive | | colonists | | the Spanish encomienda system | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient right=Theme | | 2 | **write** | past | the friar | | | | | against friar's cruelty; fiercely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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. 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