--- title: Enslaved people were never just victims: they kept their music, fait… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics description: Enslaved people were never just victims: they kept their music, faith and stories alive, escaped, resisted, and in Haiti won a revolution that made the first free Black republic in 1804. Who acts: Enslaved people, people, revolution. 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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 (Enslaved people, people, revolution), 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:2 # text = Enslaved people were never just victims: they kept their music, faith and stories alive, escaped, resisted, and in Haiti won a revolution that made the first free Black republic in 1804. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 victims victim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 resisted resist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Haiti Haiti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 25 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 revolution revolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 amod _ _ 32 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 Black Black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 1804 1804 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod 37 . . 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 | **enslave** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is a** | past | Enslaved people | victims | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | past | people | people's music and faith and stories | | | | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme | | 4 | **escape** | past | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **resist** | past | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **win** | past | people *not said here* | a revolution | | Haiti | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolution=Eventuality | | 7 | **make** | past | a revolution | the first free Black republic | | 1804 | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset republic=Product | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/1/) - next →: [Slavery and its abolition, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/)