Eritrea, sentence 43
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.
Tools found in the Barka Valley, dating from 8,000 BC, appear to offer the first concrete evidence of human settlement in the area.
Who acts: Barka Valley, Tools · What happens: find, date, appear, offer, evidence · To what, where: Tools, 8,000, first concrete evidence, human settlement
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: who acts (Barka Valley, Tools), 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 | Tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Tools | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Valley | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Valley | det |
| 5 | Barka | Barka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Valley | compound |
| 6 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl:agent |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dating | punct |
| 8 | dating | date | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Valley | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 8,000 | case |
| 10 | 8,000 | 8,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 dating | obl |
| 11 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 8,000 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tools | punct |
| 13 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 offer | mark |
| 15 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 appear | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evidence | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 evidence | amod |
| 18 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 evidence | compound |
| 19 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offer | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 settlement | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 settlement | amod |
| 22 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 evidence | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 area | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 area | det |
| 25 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 settlement | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | Tools not said here | the Barka Valley obl:agent | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | date | gerund | the Barka Valley not said here | 8,000 BC | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | Tools | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | Tools not said here | the first concrete evidence of human settlement in the area | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | ||||
| 5 | evidence | human settlement in the area | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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