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title: Venice had little farmland but grew rich from trade between Europe a… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: Venice had little farmland but grew rich from trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, from about 1000 to 1500. Who acts: Venice. 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 7

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Venice had little farmland but grew rich from trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, from about 1000 to 1500.

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**Who acts:** Venice · **What happens:** have, grow · **To what, where:** little farmland

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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), 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:7
# text = Venice had little farmland but grew rich from trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, from about 1000 to 1500.
# 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	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	farmland	farmland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | past | Venice | little farmland |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmland=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Venice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from 1000 to 1500; from trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean; rich *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from trade=Patient |

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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): 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/).

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