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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, France, Haiti, debt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:13 # text = Enslaved people in Haiti rose up in 1791 and won independence in 1804, making the first Black republic; in 1825 France forced Haiti to pay a huge sum before France would accept it as a free country, and the debt took Haiti over a century to pay off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Haiti Haiti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1791 1791 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 1804 1804 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 18 Black Black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound 19 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1825 1825 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 23 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 Haiti Haiti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 before before SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 45 Haiti Haiti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 over over ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 51 off off ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **enslave** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rise up** | past | Enslaved people in Haiti | | | 1791 | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1791=Location | | 3 | **win** | past | Enslaved people in Haiti *not said here* | independence | | 1804 | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Eventuality | | 4 | **make** | gerund | Enslaved people in Haiti *not said here* | the first Black republic | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset republic=Product | | 5 | **force** | past | France | Haiti | | 1825 | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent haiti=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Haiti *not said here* | a huge sum | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Asset | | 7 | **accept** | would | France | sum | | | | as a free country | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as country=Attribute | | 8 | **take** | past | the debt | | Haiti | | century | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument haiti=Destination | | 9 | **pay off** | to-infinitive | the debt *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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): R7-rel-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. 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