--- title: Look at a map at night from space and the bright spots sit on coasts… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics description: Look at a map at night from space and the bright spots sit on coasts and rivers: water gave drinking water, fish and the cheapest road there was, so goods and people gathered there. Who acts: you, bright spots, water, goods. 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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 (you, bright spots, water, goods), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:0 # text = Look at a map at night from space and the bright spots sit on coasts and rivers: water gave drinking water, fish and the cheapest road there was, so goods and people gathered there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 072-why-some-places-grew-rich.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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 21 drinking drinking ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 cheapest cheap ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Dem 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:cop 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 36 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 37 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | night | from space; at a map | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at map=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | the bright spots | | | coasts and rivers | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on coast=Location | | 3 | **give** | past | water | drinking water and fish and the cheapest road | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **gather** | past | goods and people | | | there | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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:history:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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: [What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, hor…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/71-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases/15/) - next →: [Why some places grew rich, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/)