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title: Cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich at oases on… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics
description: Cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich at oases on the Silk Road. Who acts: Cities. A sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Silk Road, sentence 15

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Cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich at oases on the Silk Road.

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**Who acts:** Cities · **What happens:** grow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» 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 (Cities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:028-the-silk-road.lesson:15
# text = Cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich at oases on the Silk Road.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 028-the-silk-road.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	Cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Bukhara	Bukhara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Kashgar	Kashgar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	oases	oasis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **grow** | past | Cities such Samarkand and Bukhara and Kashgar |  |  |  |  | rich *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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:15`.

**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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