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title: The Timurid capital of Samarkand became a centre of science under th… — Uzbekistan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Timurid capital of Samarkand became a centre of science under the rule of Ulugh Beg, giving birth to the Timurid Renaissance. Who acts: Timurid capital, Ulugh. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Uzbekistan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Uzbekistan, sentence 15

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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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The Timurid capital of Samarkand became a centre of science under the rule of Ulugh Beg, giving birth to the Timurid Renaissance.

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**Who acts:** Timurid capital, Ulugh · **What happens:** become, give, rule · **To what, where:** centre, birth, Timurid Renaissance

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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 (Timurid capital, Ulugh), 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:15
# text = The Timurid capital of Samarkand became a centre of science under the rule of Ulugh Beg, giving birth to the Timurid Renaissance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Timurid	timurid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Ulugh	Ulugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Beg	Beg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Timurid	Timurid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	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 | **become** | past | the Timurid capital of Samarkand | a centre of science under the rule of Ulugh |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the Timurid capital of Samarkand *not said here* | birth | the Timurid Renaissance |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to renaissance=Recipient |
| 3 | **rule** |  | Ulugh |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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