--- title: Slavery, when people are owned by others and forced to work without… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics description: Slavery, when people are owned by others and forced to work without pay or freedom, has happened in many places in history, but the Atlantic slave trade was one of the biggest crimes ever. Who acts: others, Slavery, Atlantic slave trade. 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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 (others, Slavery, Atlantic slave trade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:0 # text = Slavery, when people are owned by others and forced to work without pay or freedom, has happened in many places in history, but the Atlantic slave trade was one of the biggest crimes ever. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 031-slavery-and-its-abolition.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 1 Slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 appos _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 without without ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 crimes crime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 38 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **own** | present · passive | others | people | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | | 2 | **force** | participle | others *not said here* | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | | | | | without pay or freedom | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **happen** | present · perfect | Slavery | | | many places in history | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 5 | **is a** | past | the Atlantic slave trade | one | | | | of the biggest crimes | tree rules | 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:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:0`. **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. **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 Industrial Revolution, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/16/) - next →: [Slavery and its abolition, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/)