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title: The prophet Muhammad lived in Arabia about 1,400 years ago, and with… — The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval wo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The prophet Muhammad lived in Arabia about 1,400 years ago, and within a hundred years Muslim rulers governed lands from Spain to India, where Arabic became the shared language of learning and trade. Who acts: prophet, Muslim rulers, Arabic. A sentence of the lesson «The Islamic golden age and the w
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# The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world, sentence 1

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The prophet Muhammad lived in Arabia about 1,400 years ago, and within a hundred years Muslim rulers governed lands from Spain to India, where Arabic became the shared language of learning and trade.

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**Who acts:** prophet, Muslim rulers, Arabic · **What happens:** live, govern, become, share · **To what, where:** Arabia, lands, India, Spain, shared language

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» of the history 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 (prophet, Muslim rulers, Arabic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:1
# text = The prophet Muhammad lived in Arabia about 1,400 years ago, and within a hundred years Muslim rulers governed lands from Spain to India, where Arabic became the shared language of learning and trade.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	1,400	1,400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
17	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	governed	govern	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **live** | past | the prophet |  |  | Arabia |  | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arabia=Location |
| 2 | **govern** | past | Muslim rulers | lands | India | Spain | year |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | Arabic | the shared language of learning and trade |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:history:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:1`.

**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): R8-pos-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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