--- title: Oasis cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich in bet… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: Oasis cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich in between. Who acts: Oasis 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/4/) [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 Silk Road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/) / 4 # The Silk Road, sentence 4 Oasis cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich in between. **Who acts:** Oasis cities · **What happens:** grow 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 (Oasis 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:4 # text = Oasis cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich in between. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Oasis Oasis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 5 case _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 Samarkand Samarkand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Bukhara Bukhara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 9 Kashgar Kashgar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 11 obl _ _ 13 between between ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Oasis cities such Samarkand and Bukhara and Kashgar | | | | | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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 Silk Road, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/3/) - next →: [The Silk Road, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/)