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title: From the 1200s the Hanseatic League linked trading towns around the… — Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes · tree and pragmatics
description: From the 1200s the Hanseatic League linked trading towns around the Baltic and North Seas, such as Lübeck, Bergen and Novgorod, trading fish, furs and grain. Who acts: Hanseatic League. A sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history course of Mova's prim
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# Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 19

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From the 1200s the Hanseatic League linked trading towns around the Baltic and North Seas, such as Lübeck, Bergen and Novgorod, trading fish, furs and grain.

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**Who acts:** Hanseatic League · **What happens:** link, trade · **To what, where:** trading towns, 1200s, fish

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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 (Hanseatic League), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:19
# text = From the 1200s the Hanseatic League linked trading towns around the Baltic and North Seas, such as Lübeck, Bergen and Novgorod, trading fish, furs and grain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1200s	1200	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hanseatic	Hanseatic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	linked	link	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
9	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Baltic	Baltic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Seas	Sea	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	Lübeck	Lübeck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Bergen	Bergen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	trading	trade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
26	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **link** | past | the Hanseatic League | trading towns |  | the 1200s |  | around the Baltic North Seas; such Lübeck and Bergen and Novgorod | tree rules |
| 2 | **trade** | gerund | the Hanseatic League *not said here* | fish and furs and grain |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |

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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:history:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.lesson:19`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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

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