Why some places grew rich, sentence 1
In Europa Universalis, Venice grows fat on its trade node and Spain fills its treasury from American silver mines; the game even makes prices rise, called inflation, when you dig too much gold, and real history did something similar.
Who acts: Venice, Spain, game, prices, you, real history · What happens: grow, fill, make, rise, call, dig · To what, where: fat, Europa, treasury, American silver mines, inflation, much gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Venice, Spain, game, prices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Europa | case |
| 2 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | obl |
| 3 | Universalis | Universalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Europa | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Europa | punct |
| 5 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 node | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 node | nmod:poss |
| 10 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 node | compound |
| 11 | node | node | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fills | cc |
| 13 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fills | nsubj |
| 14 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grows | conj |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 16 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fills | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 mines | case |
| 18 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mines | amod |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mines | compound |
| 20 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fills | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 makes | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 game | det |
| 23 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 makes | nsubj |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 makes | advmod |
| 25 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grows | parataxis |
| 26 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rise | nsubj |
| 27 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 makes | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 inflation | punct |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 inflation | acl |
| 30 | inflation | inflation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dig | punct |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 dig | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 dig | nsubj |
| 34 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 inflation | conj |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 gold | amod |
| 37 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dig | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 did | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 did | cc |
| 40 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 history | amod |
| 41 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 did | nsubj |
| 42 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grows | conj |
| 43 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 42 did | obj |
| 44 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 something | amod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Venice | fat | Europa | on fat's trade node | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme | ||
| 2 | fill | present | Spain | fat's treasury | American silver mines | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent treasury=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | present | the game | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rise | present | prices | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | call | participle | inflation not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dig | present | you | much gold | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do | past | real history | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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, 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:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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