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title: Ports such as Liverpool, Bristol, Nantes and Lisbon grew rich from t… — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Ports such as Liverpool, Bristol, Nantes and Lisbon grew rich from this trade. Who acts: Ports. A sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 11

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Ports such as Liverpool, Bristol, Nantes and Lisbon grew rich from this trade.

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**Who acts:** Ports · **What happens:** grow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» of the geography 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 (Ports), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:11
# text = Ports such as Liverpool, Bristol, Nantes and Lisbon grew rich from this trade.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.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): no change
1	Ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Nantes	Nantes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Ports such Liverpool and Bristol and Nantes and Lisbon |  |  |  |  | from this trade; rich *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from trade=Patient |

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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.

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**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:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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