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title: Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wi… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics
description: Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wilberforce argued in Parliament for years to end the slave trade. Who acts: Olaudah, William. A sentence of the lesson «Slavery and its abolition» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Slavery and its abolition, sentence 10

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Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wilberforce argued in Parliament for years to end the slave trade.

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**Who acts:** Olaudah, William · **What happens:** enslave, write, argue, end · **To what, where:** Olaudah, life story, Parliament, slave trade

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Slavery and its abolition» of the history 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 (Olaudah, William), 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:10
# text = Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wilberforce argued in Parliament for years to end the slave trade.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Olaudah	Olaudah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Equiano	Equiano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Wilberforce	Wilberforce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Parliament	parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enslave** | participle |  | Olaudah *not said here* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | past | Olaudah | Olaudah's life story |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | William |  |  | Parliament | year |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **end** | to-infinitive | William *not said here* | the slave trade |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trade=Eventuality |

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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:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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