--- title: New laws in the 1960s banned segregation, keeping Black and white pe… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics description: New laws in the 1960s banned segregation, keeping Black and white people apart by law, and protected Black Americans' right to vote. Who acts: New laws. 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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 (New laws), 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:17 # text = New laws in the 1960s banned segregation, keeping Black and white people apart by law, and protected Black Americans' right to vote. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 New new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 1960s 1960s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 6 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 segregation segregation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 10 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 apart apart ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 19 protected protect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 Black Black ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ' ' PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ban** | past | New laws in the 1960s | segregation | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer segregation=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | New laws in the 1960s *not said here* | Black people | | | | by law | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme by law=Location | | 3 | **protect** | past | New laws in the 1960s *not said here* | Black Americans's right | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Beneficiary | | 4 | **vote** | to-infinitive | New laws in the 1960s *not said here* | Black Americans's right *not said here* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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. Sentence `school:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Slavery and its abolition, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/16/) - next →: [Votes for women, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/)