The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 20
Samarkand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan were great cities of the Silk Road, and Timur made Samarkand his capital from 1370.
Who acts: Samarkand, Timur · What happens: be, make · To what, where: great cities, Samarkand capital, 1370
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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 (Samarkand, Timur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samarkand | Samarkand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cities | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Bukhara | cc |
| 3 | Bukhara | Bukhara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Samarkand | conj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Uzbekistan | case |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Samarkand | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cities | cop |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cities | amod |
| 8 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Road | det |
| 11 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Road | compound |
| 12 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cities | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 15 | Timur | Timur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cities | conj |
| 17 | Samarkand | Samarkand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 capital | compound |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 capital | nmod:poss |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 1370 | case |
| 21 | 1370 | 1370 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cities | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Samarkand in Uzbekistan and Bukhara | great cities | of the Silk Road | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | Timur | Uzbekistan's Samarkand capital | 1370 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent capital=Product from 1370=Material |
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, 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:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:20.
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.
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