--- title: In the USA a secret network called the Underground Railroad helped e… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics description: In the USA a secret network called the Underground Railroad helped escaping slaves travel north, using secret railway words such as stations and conductors, and Harriet Tubman escaped and went back many times to lead others to freedom. Who acts: secret network, escaping slaves, Harriet. 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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 (secret network, escaping slaves, Harriet), 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:13 # text = In the USA a secret network called the Underground Railroad helped escaping slaves travel north, using secret railway words such as stations and conductors, and Harriet Tubman escaped and went back many times to lead others to freedom. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 network network NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Underground Underground PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 Railroad railroad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 escaping escape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 north north ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 23 case _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 conductors conductor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 Harriet Harriet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 Tubman Tubman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 38 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | a secret network *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **help** | past | a secret network | escaping slaves | | the USA | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent slave=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **escape** | gerund | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **travel** | infinitive | escaping slaves *not said here* | | | | | north *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | gerund | escaping slaves *not said here* | secret railway words | | | | such stations and conductors | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 6 | **escape** | past | Harriet | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **go back** | past | Harriet *not said here* | | | | time | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **lead** | to-infinitive | Harriet *not said here* | others | | freedom | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Theme to freedom=Destination | 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:13`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Slavery and its abolition, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/12/) - next →: [Slavery and its abolition, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/)