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title: During this period, cities began to grow rich from the Silk Road, an… — Uzbekistan · tree and pragmatics
description: During this period, cities began to grow rich from the Silk Road, and became a centre of the Islamic Golden Age. Who acts: cities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uzbekistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uzbekistan, sentence 12

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From Wikipedia, [«Uzbekistan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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During this period, cities began to grow rich from the Silk Road, and became a centre of the Islamic Golden Age.

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**Who acts:** cities · **What happens:** begin, grow, become · **To what, where:** centre

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Uzbekistan». 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Uzbekistan:12
# text = During this period, cities began to grow rich from the Silk Road, and became a centre of the Islamic Golden Age.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | cities |  |  |  | during this period |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | cities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the Silk Road; rich *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from road=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | cities *not said here* | a centre of the Islamic Golden Age |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Uzbekistan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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