Afghanistan, sentence 59

From Wikipedia, «Afghanistan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The Silk Road appeared during the first century BCE, and Afghanistan flourished with trade, with routes to China, India, Persia, and north to the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, and Khiva in present-day Uzbekistan.

Who acts: Silk Road, Afghanistan · What happens: appear, flourish · To what, where: Khiva Uzbekistan

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Afghanistan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silk Road, Afghanistan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Road	det
2	Silk	Silk	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Road	compound
3	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	during	during	ADP	_	8 century	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 century	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 century	amod
8	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl
9	BCE	BCE	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 century	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flourished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flourished	cc
12	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 flourished	nsubj
13	flourished	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 trade	case
15	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flourished	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 routes	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 routes	case
18	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flourished	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 China	case
20	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 routes	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 India	punct
22	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 China	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Persia	punct
24	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 China	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cities	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cities	cc
27	north	north	ADV	_	30 cities	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 cities	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cities	det
30	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appeared	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Bukhara	case
32	Bukhara	Bukhara	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 cities	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Samarkand	punct
34	Samarkand	Samarkand	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Bukhara	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Khiva	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Khiva	cc
37	Khiva	Khiva	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Uzbekistan	compound
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 day	case
39	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 day	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 present	punct
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Khiva	nmod
42	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the Silk Road	Khiva Uzbekistan			century	to the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flourish	past	Afghanistan					with trade; with routes to China and India and Persia	vn exist-47.1 «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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Afghanistan», 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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Afghanistan, sentence 59