Ethiopia, sentence 63
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Archaic Homo sapiens fossils excavated at the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco have since been dated to an earlier period, about 300,000 years ago, while Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) from southern Ethiopia is the oldest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skeleton currently known (196 ± 5 kya).
Who acts: dated oldest modern Homo · What happens: excavate, date, be, sapien, know · To what, where: Archaic sapiens fossils, Jebel site, southern Ethiopia, dated oldest modern Homo, skeleton
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ethiopia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dated oldest modern Homo), 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 | Archaic | archaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fossils | amod |
| 2 | Homo | Homo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sapiens | compound |
| 3 | sapiens | sapien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fossils | compound |
| 4 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | excavated | excavate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fossils | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 site | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 site | det |
| 8 | Jebel | Jebel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 site | compound |
| 9 | Irhoud | Irhoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jebel | flat |
| 10 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excavated | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Morocco | case |
| 12 | Morocco | Morocco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 excavated | obl |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dated | aux |
| 14 | since | since | ADV | _ | 16 dated | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 dated | aux:pass |
| 16 | dated | date | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 Homo | amod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 period | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 period | det |
| 19 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 period | advmod |
| 20 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dated | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ago | punct |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 300,000 | advmod |
| 23 | 300,000 | 300000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 16 dated | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Omo | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 Omo | mark |
| 28 | Omo | Omo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Kibish | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Omo | punct |
| 30 | Kibish | Kibish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Omo | compound |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 Kibish | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Omo | punct |
| 33 | Omo | Omo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dated | parataxis |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 Omo | appos |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Omo | punct |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 Ethiopia | case |
| 37 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Ethiopia | amod |
| 38 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dated | obl |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 Homo | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Homo | det |
| 41 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 Homo | amod |
| 42 | anatomically | anatomically | ADV | _ | 43 modern | advmod |
| 43 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Homo | amod |
| 44 | Homo | Homo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 sapiens | nsubj |
| 45 | sapiens | sapien | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 46 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sapiens | obj |
| 47 | currently | currently | ADV | _ | 48 known | advmod |
| 48 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 sapiens | advcl |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 196 | punct |
| 50 | 196 | 196 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 sapiens | parataxis |
| 51 | ± | ± | SYM | _ | 52 5 | case |
| 52 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 53 kya | nummod |
| 53 | kya | kya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 196 | appos |
| 54 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 196 | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 sapiens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excavate | participle | Archaic sapiens fossils not said here | the Jebel site | in Morocco | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at site=Location | |||
| 2 | date | present · perfect · passive | Archaic sapiens fossils | southern Ethiopia | to a period; Kibish Omo parataxis; ago, since property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the dated oldest modern Homo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sapien | present | the dated oldest modern Homo | skeleton | 196 parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | participle | the dated oldest modern Homo not said here | currently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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