--- title: However, with pressure from the abolitionist movement, Parliament ba… — United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: However, with pressure from the abolitionist movement, Parliament banned the trade in 1807, banned slavery in the British Empire in 1833, and Britain took a leading role in the movement to abolish slavery worldwide through the blockade of Africa and pressing other nations to end their trade with a s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/76/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/) / 76 # United Kingdom, sentence 76 From Wikipedia, [«United Kingdom»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), 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. However, with pressure from the abolitionist movement, Parliament banned the trade in 1807, banned slavery in the British Empire in 1833, and Britain took a leading role in the movement to abolish slavery worldwide through the blockade of Africa and pressing other nations to end their trade with a series of treaties. **Who acts:** Parliament, Britain, parliaments · **What happens:** ban, take, lead, abolish, press, end · **To what, where:** trade, 1807, slavery, British Empire, leading role, movement This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parliament, Britain, parliaments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:United_Kingdom:76 # text = However, with pressure from the abolitionist movement, Parliament banned the trade in 1807, banned slavery in the British Empire in 1833, and Britain took a leading role in the movement to abolish slavery worldwide through the blockade of Africa and pressing other nations to end their trade with a series of treaties. 1 However however ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 abolitionist abolitionist NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 Parliament Parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1807 1807 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 1833 1833 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 amod _ _ 31 role role NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 abolish abolish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 37 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 worldwide worldwide ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 39 through through ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 blockade blockade NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 46 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 advcl _ _ 50 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 treaties treaty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ban** | past | Parliament | the trade | | 1807 | | with pressure from the abolitionist movement; however *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme | | 2 | **ban** | past | Parliament *not said here* | slavery | | the British Empire | | in 1833 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer slavery=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | Britain | a leading role | | the movement | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent role=Value in movement=Location | | 4 | **lead** | gerund | | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 5 | **abolish** | to-infinitive | Britain *not said here* | slavery | | the blockade of Africa | | worldwide *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Theme | | 6 | **press** | gerund | Britain *not said here* | other nations | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Theme | | 7 | **end** | to-infinitive | Britain *not said here* | parliaments's trade | | | | with a series of treaties | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector trade=Eventuality with series=Subeventuality | | 8 | **blockade** | | | Africa | | | | | nom blockade «act transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **trade** | | parliaments *= parliament* | | | | | | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/77/) - ↑ back to [United Kingdom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_Kingdom/)