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title: The slave trade continued at Gorée until 1848, when it was finally a… — Dakar · tree and pragmatics
description: The slave trade continued at Gorée until 1848, when it was finally abolished throughout all French territories. Who acts: slave trade. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dakar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dakar, sentence 34

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From Wikipedia, [«Dakar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The slave trade continued at Gorée until 1848, when it was finally abolished throughout all French territories.

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**Who acts:** slave trade · **What happens:** continue, abolish · **To what, where:** Gorée, trade

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dakar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave trade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Dakar:34
# text = The slave trade continued at Gorée until 1848, when it was finally abolished throughout all French territories.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gorée	Gorée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1848	1848	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the slave trade |  |  | Gorée | until 1848 |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **abolish** | past · passive |  | trade |  |  | throughout all French territories | finally *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Dakar», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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