Why some places grew rich, sentence 7
Venice had little farmland but grew rich from trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, from about 1000 to 1500.
Who acts: Venice · What happens: have, grow · To what, where: little farmland
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), 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 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmland | amod |
| 4 | farmland | farmland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 grew | cc |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 trade | case |
| 9 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 Europe | case |
| 11 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trade | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Mediterranean | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mediterranean | det |
| 14 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Mediterranean | amod |
| 15 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Europe | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1000 | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 1000 | case |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 1000 | advmod |
| 19 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 grew | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 1500 | case |
| 21 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 1000 | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Venice | little farmland | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmland=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Venice not said here | from 1000 to 1500; from trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean; rich property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from trade=Patient |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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