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title: Enslaved people worked on plantations without pay or freedom, and fa… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics
description: Enslaved people worked on plantations without pay or freedom, and families could be sold apart, yet they kept music, faith, stories and families alive. Who acts: Enslaved people, people. A sentence of the lesson «Slavery and its abolition» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Slavery and its abolition, sentence 8

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Enslaved people worked on plantations without pay or freedom, and families could be sold apart, yet they kept music, faith, stories and families alive.

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**Who acts:** Enslaved people, people · **What happens:** work, sell, keep · **To what, where:** families, music

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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 (Enslaved people, people), 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:8
# text = Enslaved people worked on plantations without pay or freedom, and families could be sold apart, yet they kept music, faith, stories and families alive.
# 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
1	Enslaved	enslave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	plantations	plantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **work** | past | Enslaved people |  |  |  |  | without pay or freedom; on plantations | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plantation=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | could · passive |  | families |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | people | music and faith |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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:8`.

**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. **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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