The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 7

Think of a road trip along the Silk Road: from Istanbul across Iran to Samarkand in Uzbekistan, every stop is a city that grew where travellers and camels could find water.

Who acts: you, stop, city, travellers · What happens: think, be, grow, find · To what, where: city, water

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 (you, stop, city, travellers), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 trip	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trip	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trip	compound
5	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 Road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Road	det
8	Silk	Silk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Road	compound
9	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trip	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Istanbul	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Istanbul	case
12	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trip	nmod
13	across	across	ADP	_	14 Iran	case
14	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Istanbul	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Samarkand	case
16	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Istanbul	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Uzbekistan	case
18	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Samarkand	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 city	punct
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 stop	det
21	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 city	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 city	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 city	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Istanbul	appos
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 grew	nsubj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 city	acl:relcl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 find	advmod
28	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 find	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 camels	cc
30	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 travellers	conj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 find	aux
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 grew	advcl
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here		of a road trip along the Silk Road from Istanbul across Iran to Samarkand in Uzbekistan	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	every stop	a city		tree rules
3	grow	past	a city			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	could	travellers and camels	water		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic

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:7.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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