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title: Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan were great cities of the Silk Ro… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan were great cities of the Silk Road, and Timur made Samarkand his capital from 1370. Who acts: Samarkand, Timur. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 20

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Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan were great cities of the Silk Road, and Timur made Samarkand his capital from 1370.

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**Who acts:** Samarkand, Timur · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** great cities, Samarkand capital, 1370

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography 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 (Samarkand, Timur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:20
# text = Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan were great cities of the Silk Road, and Timur made Samarkand his capital from 1370.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 012-middle-east-and-central-asia.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	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Bukhara	Bukhara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Timur	Timur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1370	1370	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | past | Samarkand in Uzbekistan and Bukhara | great cities |  |  |  | of the Silk Road | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Timur | Uzbekistan's Samarkand capital |  | 1370 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent capital=Product from 1370=Material |

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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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**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:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:20`.

**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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