Ireland, sentence 35

From Wikipedia, «Ireland», 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.

Until recently, the earliest evidence of human activity in Ireland was dated at 12,500 years ago, demonstrated by a butchered bear bone found in a cave in County Clare.

What happens: date, demonstrate, butcher, find, evidence · To what, where: earliest evidence, butchered bear bone, cave, human activity

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ireland». 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	Until	until	ADP	_	2 recently	case
2	recently	recently	ADV	_	13 dated	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 recently	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evidence	det
5	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 evidence	amod
6	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dated	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 activity	case
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 activity	amod
9	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evidence	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Ireland	case
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 activity	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dated	aux:pass
13	dated	date	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	12,500	12,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ago	obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 dated	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 demonstrated	punct
19	demonstrated	demonstrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 dated	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	24 bone	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bone	det
22	butchered	butcher	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bone	amod
23	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bone	compound
24	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 demonstrated	obl:agent
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bone	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 cave	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cave	det
28	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 County	case
30	County	County	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 cave	nmod
31	Clare	Clare	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 County	flat
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 dated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	date	past · passive	the earliest evidence of human activity in Ireland		ago property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
2	demonstrate	participle			a butchered bear bone obl:agent	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	butcher	participle				vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
4	find	participle	a butchered bear bone not said here	a cave in County		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	evidence		human activity in Ireland			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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Ireland, sentence 35