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What is meant by "roots in $Lie(N)$" in root space decomposition of Lie algebras?

Let $G = GL_n$ and $T$ the invertible diagonal matrices and $N$ the upper triangular matrices with only $1$'s on the diagonal. Then the Lie algebra $\mathcal{G}$ has the roots space decomposition $$ \...