--- title: In the 1600s the small Netherlands grew rich through trade and banki… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1600s the small Netherlands grew rich through trade and banking; in Amsterdam people bought and sold shares, small parts of the Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602, which gave them a piece of its profits. Who acts: small Netherlands, people, Dutch India Company, Netherlands. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small Netherlands, people, Dutch India Company, Netherlands), 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:9 # text = In the 1600s the small Netherlands grew rich through trade and banking; in Amsterdam people bought and sold shares, small parts of the Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602, which gave them a piece of its profits. # 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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Netherlands Netherlands PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 banking bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Amsterdam Amsterdam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 shares share NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound 28 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Company Company PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1602 1602 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 profits profit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **grow** | past | the small Netherlands | | | the 1600s | | through trade and banking; rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1600=Location | | 2 | **buy** | past | people | | | Amsterdam | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sell** | past | people *not said here* | shares | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | | 4 | **found** | participle | | the Dutch India Company *not said here* | | 1602 | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | past | the Dutch India Company | a piece of Netherlands's profits | shares *= share* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient piece=Theme | | 6 | **profit** | | Netherlands | | | | | | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=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. 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