The Silk Road, sentence 15
Cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Kashgar grew rich at oases on the Silk Road.
Who acts: Cities · What happens: grow
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» 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 (Cities), 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 | Cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 Samarkand | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | Samarkand | Samarkand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cities | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bukhara | punct |
| 6 | Bukhara | Bukhara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Samarkand | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Kashgar | cc |
| 8 | Kashgar | Kashgar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Samarkand | conj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 oases | case |
| 12 | oases | oasis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rich | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Road | det |
| 15 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Road | compound |
| 16 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 oases | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Cities such Samarkand and Bukhara and Kashgar | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:15.
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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