Lusaka, sentence 6
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The earliest evidence of settlement in the area dates to the 6th century AD, with the first known settlement in the 11th century.
Who acts: earliest evidence · What happens: date, know, evidence · To what, where: settlement
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lusaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earliest evidence), 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 | 3 evidence | det |
| 2 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 evidence | amod |
| 3 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dates | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 settlement | case |
| 5 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evidence | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 area | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 area | det |
| 8 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settlement | nmod |
| 9 | dates | date | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 AD | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 AD | det |
| 12 | 6th | 6th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 AD | amod |
| 13 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 AD | compound |
| 14 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dates | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 settlement | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 settlement | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 settlement | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 settlement | amod |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 settlement | amod |
| 20 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 AD | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 century | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 century | det |
| 23 | 11th | 11th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 century | amod |
| 24 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 settlement | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | date | present | the earliest evidence of settlement in the area | to the 6th century AD and the first known settlement in the 11th century | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | evidence | 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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