--- title: Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its em… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics description: Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1834; the US ended slavery in 1865, Brazil in 1888, and Mauritania made it illegal in 1981; forced labour still happens illegally today. Who acts: Britain, US, Mauritania, forced labour. 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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 (Britain, US, Mauritania, forced labour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:17 # text = Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in most of its empire in 1834; the US ended slavery in 1865, Brazil in 1888, and Mauritania made it illegal in 1981; forced labour still happens illegally today. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.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 _ 14 case _ _ 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 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 2 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1834 1834 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1865 1865 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1888 1888 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 Mauritania Mauritania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 illegal illegal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1981 1981 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 37 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 41 illegally illegally ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ban** | past | Britain | the slave trade | | 1807 and slavery | | in slavery's most empire in 1834; in 1888 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme | | 2 | **end** | past | the US | slavery Brazil | | 1865 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector slavery=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | past | Mauritania | slavery | | | | illegal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **happen** | present | forced labour | | | | still; today | illegally *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.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): 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. 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