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title: In Europa Universalis, Venice grows fat on its trade node and Spain… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: In Europa Universalis, Venice grows fat on its trade node and Spain fills its treasury from American silver mines; the game even makes prices rise, called inflation, when you dig too much gold, and real history did something similar. Who acts: Venice, Spain, game, prices. A sentence of the lesson «W
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# Why some places grew rich, sentence 1

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In Europa Universalis, Venice grows fat on its trade node and Spain fills its treasury from American silver mines; the game even makes prices rise, called inflation, when you dig too much gold, and real history did something similar.

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**Who acts:** Venice, Spain, game, prices, you, real history · **What happens:** grow, fill, make, rise, call, dig · **To what, where:** fat, Europa, treasury, American silver mines, inflation, much gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Spain, game, prices), 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:1
# text = In Europa Universalis, Venice grows fat on its trade node and Spain fills its treasury from American silver mines; the game even makes prices rise, called inflation, when you dig too much gold, and real history did something similar.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	node	node	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
26	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
30	inflation	inflation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
43	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	42	obj	_	_
44	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **grow** | present | Venice | fat |  | Europa |  | on fat's trade node | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | present | Spain | fat's treasury |  | American silver mines |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent treasury=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | the game |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rise** | present | prices |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | inflation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **dig** | present | you | much gold |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 7 | **do** | past | real history | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |

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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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**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, 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.

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