--- title: Some countries grew rich partly by taking land, goods and labour fro… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics description: Some countries grew rich partly by taking land, goods and labour from colonies and from enslaved people; how much this explains today's wealth is still debated by historians. Who acts: countries, this, historians. A sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» of the history course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Why some places grew rich](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/) / 15 # Why some places grew rich, sentence 15 Some countries grew rich partly by taking land, goods and labour from colonies and from enslaved people; how much this explains today's wealth is still debated by historians. **Who acts:** countries, this, historians · **What happens:** grow, take, enslave, explain, debate · **To what, where:** land, colonies, wealth 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 (countries, this, historians), 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:15 # text = Some countries grew rich partly by taking land, goods and labour from colonies and from enslaved people; how much this explains today's wealth is still debated by historians. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 partly partly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 csubj _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 23 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 debated debate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:agent _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | some countries | | | | | partly, rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | gerund | some countries *not said here* | land and goods and labour | | colonies and enslaved people | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from colony=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **enslave** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | this | today's wealth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Topic | | 5 | **debate** | present · passive | historians | | | | still | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Why some places grew rich, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/14/) - next →: [Cities: why they grow, and how water a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/73-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/)