Japan, sentence 7
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.
The first known habitation of the archipelago dates to the Upper Paleolithic, with the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic dating to c. 36,000 BC.
Who acts: first known habitation · What happens: know, date, begin · To what, where: Japanese Paleolithic dating
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 (first known habitation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 habitation | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 habitation | amod |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 habitation | amod |
| 4 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dates | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 archipelago | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 archipelago | det |
| 7 | archipelago | archipelago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 habitation | nmod |
| 8 | dates | date | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Paleolithic | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Paleolithic | det |
| 11 | Upper | Upper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Paleolithic | compound |
| 12 | Paleolithic | Paleolithic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dates | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beginning | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 beginning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beginning | det |
| 16 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dates | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dating | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dating | det |
| 19 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dating | amod |
| 20 | Paleolithic | Paleolithic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dating | compound |
| 21 | dating | dating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beginning | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 c. | case |
| 23 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dating | nmod |
| 24 | 36,000 | 36,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 c. | flat |
| 25 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 36,000 | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | date | present | the first known habitation of the archipelago | with the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic dating to c. | to the Upper Paleolithic | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | begin | the Japanese Paleolithic dating to c. | 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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