Eritrea, sentence 36
From Wikipedia, «Eritrea», 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.
This fossil has been said to reveal significant stages in human evolution and to represent a possible link between the earlier Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens.
What happens: say, reveal, represent · To what, where: fossil, significant stages, human evolution, possible link · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eritrea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 fossil | det |
| 2 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reveal | mark |
| 7 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | xcomp |
| 8 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stages | amod |
| 9 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reveal | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 evolution | case |
| 11 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 evolution | amod |
| 12 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reveal | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 represent | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 represent | mark |
| 15 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reveal | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 link | det |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 link | amod |
| 18 | link | link | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represent | obj |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 erectus | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 erectus | det |
| 21 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 erectus | amod |
| 22 | Homo | homo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 erectus | compound |
| 23 | erectus | erectus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 link | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sapiens | cc |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sapiens | det |
| 26 | archaic | archaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sapiens | amod |
| 27 | Homo | homo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sapiens | compound |
| 28 | sapiens | sapien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 erectus | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | this fossil | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reveal | to-infinitive | significant stages | human evolution | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Topic | ||||
| 3 | represent | to-infinitive | a possible link | between the earlier Homo erectus and a archaic Homo sapiens | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot link=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.
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