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title: In 1831, reflecting a liberalisation of official British racial atti… — Dominica · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1831, reflecting a liberalisation of official British racial attitudes, the Brown Privilege Bill conferred political and social rights on free blacks (mostly free people of colour, who generally were of mixed race, with African and European ancestry). Who acts: Brown Privilege, free people, offic
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# Dominica, sentence 67

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From Wikipedia, [«Dominica»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica), 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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In 1831, reflecting a liberalisation of official British racial attitudes, the Brown Privilege Bill conferred political and social rights on free blacks (mostly free people of colour, who generally were of mixed race, with African and European ancestry).

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**Who acts:** Brown Privilege, free people, official British racial attitudes · **What happens:** reflect, confer, mix, be, liberalise · **To what, where:** liberalisation, political rights, free blacks, 1831

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brown Privilege, free people, official British racial attitudes), 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:Dominica:67
# text = In 1831, reflecting a liberalisation of official British racial attitudes, the Brown Privilege Bill conferred political and social rights on free blacks (mostly free people of colour, who generally were of mixed race, with African and European ancestry).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1831	1831	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	liberalisation	liberalisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	racial	racial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	attitudes	attitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	conferred	confer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blacks	black	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
33	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
43	ancestry	ancestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | gerund |  | a liberalisation of official British racial attitudes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **confer** | past | the Brown Privilege | political rights |  | free blacks |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | free people of colour |  |  |  |  | of mixed race and African ancestry; African ancestry *conj*; generally *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **liberalise** |  | official British racial attitudes |  |  |  |  |  | nom liberalisation «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Dominica», 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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