--- title: Silver from Potosí, in today's Bolivia, flowed to Spain from the 150… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics description: Silver from Potosí, in today's Bolivia, flowed to Spain from the 1500s; much was spent on wars, prices rose, Spain's kings ran out of money several times, and much of the silver ended up in China, which wanted silver. Who acts: Silver, prices, kings, much. A sentence of the lesson «Why some places g --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Why some places grew rich, sentence 8 Silver from Potosí, in today's Bolivia, flowed to Spain from the 1500s; much was spent on wars, prices rose, Spain's kings ran out of money several times, and much of the silver ended up in China, which wanted silver. **Who acts:** Silver, prices, kings, much, China · **What happens:** flow, spend, rise, run, end up, want · **To what, where:** Spain, 1500s, much, wars, money, China 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 (Silver, prices, kings, much), 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:8 # text = Silver from Potosí, in today's Bolivia, flowed to Spain from the 1500s; much was spent on wars, prices rose, Spain's kings ran out of money several times, and much of the silver ended up in China, which wanted silver. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Potosí Potosí PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 Bolivia Bolivia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 flowed flow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 1500s 1500 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=24:punct 26 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obl 41 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 47 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:parataxis 48 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flow** | past | Silver from Potosí and today's Bolivia | | Spain | the 1500s | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spend** | past · passive | | much | | | | on wars *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Asset on war=Goal | | 3 | **rise** | past | prices | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run** | past | Spain's kings | | | money | time | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out money=Trajectory | | 5 | **end up** | past | much of the silver | | | | | in China *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in china=Result | | 6 | **want** | past | China | silver | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot silver=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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/7/) - next →: [Why some places grew rich, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/)