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title: Most old cities grew beside rivers, lakes or seas, which gave water,… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: Most old cities grew beside rivers, lakes or seas, which gave water, fish and cheap transport for goods. Who acts: Most old cities, seas. A sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Why some places grew rich, sentence 5

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Most old cities grew beside rivers, lakes or seas, which gave water, fish and cheap transport for goods.

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**Who acts:** Most old cities, seas · **What happens:** grow, give · **To what, where:** rivers, water

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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 (Most old cities, seas), 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:5
# text = Most old cities grew beside rivers, lakes or seas, which gave water, fish and cheap transport for goods.
# 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 ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | past | Most old cities |  |  | rivers and lakes or seas |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | seas | water and fish and cheap transport for goods |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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**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. **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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