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title: Arabic spread from Arabia across the Middle East and North Africa, a… — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics
description: Arabic spread from Arabia across the Middle East and North Africa, as far as Egypt and Morocco, after the 600s, while Turkic languages spread from Central Asia west to Anatolia. Who acts: Arabic, Turkic languages. A sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» of the geography course of
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# Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 13

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Arabic spread from Arabia across the Middle East and North Africa, as far as Egypt and Morocco, after the 600s, while Turkic languages spread from Central Asia west to Anatolia.

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**Who acts:** Arabic, Turkic languages · **What happens:** spread · **To what, where:** Arabia, Anatolia, Central Asia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» 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 (Arabic, Turkic languages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:13
# text = Arabic spread from Arabia across the Middle East and North Africa, as far as Egypt and Morocco, after the 600s, while Turkic languages spread from Central Asia west to Anatolia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	600s	600	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	Turkic	turkic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	west	west	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Anatolia	Anatolia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **spread** | past | Arabic |  |  | Arabia | after the 600s | across the Middle East and North Africa; far *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across east=Destination |
| 2 | **spread** | past | Turkic languages |  | Anatolia | Central Asia |  | west *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:13`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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