Japan, sentence 31
From Wikipedia, «Japan», 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.
Modern humans arrived in Japan around 38,000 years ago (~36,000 BC), marking the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic.
Who acts: Modern humans · What happens: arrive, mark, begin · To what, where: Japan, beginning, Japanese Paleolithic
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Modern humans), 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 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 humans | amod |
| 2 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Japan | case |
| 5 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 38,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 38,000 | 38000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 36,000 | punct |
| 11 | ~ | ~ | SYM | _ | 12 36,000 | case |
| 12 | 36,000 | 36,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 arrived | obl |
| 13 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 36,000 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 36,000 | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 marking | punct |
| 16 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beginning | det |
| 18 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marking | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Paleolithic | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Paleolithic | det |
| 21 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Paleolithic | amod |
| 22 | Paleolithic | Paleolithic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 beginning | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Modern humans | Japan | ~ 36,000 BC; ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | mark | gerund | Modern humans not said here | the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | the Japanese Paleolithic | nom beginning «event 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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