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title: People still came, because cities had what villages lacked: jobs, ma… — Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers… · tree and pragmatics
description: People still came, because cities had what villages lacked: jobs, markets, temples, schools, doctors and walls for safety; in Europa Universalis you just click «develop» on a province, but real cities grew where farms had extra food and traders met. Who acts: People, cities, villages, you. A sentenc
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# Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 1

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People still came, because cities had what villages lacked: jobs, markets, temples, schools, doctors and walls for safety; in Europa Universalis you just click «develop» on a province, but real cities grew where farms had extra food and traders met.

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**Who acts:** People, cities, villages, you, real cities, farms · **What happens:** come, have, lack, click, develop, grow · **To what, where:** jobs, Europa, province, extra food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» 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 (People, cities, villages, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:1
# text = People still came, because cities had what villages lacked: jobs, markets, temples, schools, doctors and walls for safety; in Europa Universalis you just click «develop» on a province, but real cities grew where farms had extra food and traders met.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.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, R5-strong ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
9	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lacked	lack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	click	click	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	develop	develop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
44	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
46	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | People |  |  |  | still |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | cities |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **lack** | past | villages | jobs and markets and temples and schools and doctors for safety and walls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **click** | infinitive | you |  |  | Europa |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **develop** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a province |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Product |
| 6 | **grow** | past | real cities |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | farms | extra food |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 8 | **meet** | past | traders |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, R5-strong ×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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