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title: Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its em… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics
description: Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1833. Who acts: Britain. A sentence of the lesson «Slavery and its abolition» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Slavery and its abolition, sentence 11

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Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1833.

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

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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 (Britain), 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:11
# text = Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1833.
# 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): 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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
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	_	11	case	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nmod	_	_
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	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1833	1833	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **ban** | past | Britain | the slave trade |  | 1807 and slavery in most of trade's empire in 1833 |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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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