--- title: Think of a road trip along the Silk Road: from Istanbul across Iran… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a road trip along the Silk Road: from Istanbul across Iran to Samarkand in Uzbekistan, every stop is a city that grew where travellers and camels could find water. Who acts: you, stop, city, travellers. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/7/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The Middle East and Central Asia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/) / 7 # The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 7 Think of a road trip along the Silk Road: from Istanbul across Iran to Samarkand in Uzbekistan, every stop is a city that grew where travellers and camels could find water. **Who acts:** you, stop, city, travellers · **What happens:** think, be, grow, find · **To what, where:** city, water 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 (you, stop, city, travellers), 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:7 # text = Think of a road trip along the Silk Road: from Istanbul across Iran to Samarkand in Uzbekistan, every stop is a city that grew where travellers and camels could find water. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 along along ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Silk Silk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Istanbul Istanbul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 13 across across ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Iran Iran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Samarkand Samarkand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Uzbekistan Uzbekistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 28 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a road trip along the Silk Road from Istanbul across Iran to Samarkand in Uzbekistan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | every stop | a city | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | past | a city | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **find** | could | travellers and camels | water | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | 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:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:7`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/6/) - next →: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/)