--- title: In medieval Europe a sack of pepper could be worth a fortune, becaus… — The spice trade and the Indian Ocean · tree and pragmatics description: In medieval Europe a sack of pepper could be worth a fortune, because it grew only in tropical Asia and passed through many hands, each trader adding a profit, before it reached a market in Venice. Who acts: sack, trader. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sack, trader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.lesson:1 # text = In medieval Europe a sack of pepper could be worth a fortune, because it grew only in tropical Asia and passed through many hands, each trader adding a profit, before it reached a market in Venice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.lesson # annotation = 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 medieval medieval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 through through ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 trader trader NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 profit profit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 before before SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | could | a sack of pepper | | | medieval Europe | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | past | sack | | | tropical Asia | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in asia=Location | | 3 | **pass** | past | sack *not said here* | | | many hands | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hand=Location | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | each trader | a profit | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Patient | | 5 | **reach** | past | trader | a market | | Venice | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent market=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/0/) - next →: [The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/)