Malaysia, sentence 48
From Wikipedia, «Malaysia», 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.
Evidence of modern human habitation in Malaysia dates back 40,000 years.
Who acts: Evidence · What happens: date back, evidence · To what, where: modern human habitation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dates | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 habitation | case |
| 3 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 habitation | amod |
| 4 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 habitation | amod |
| 5 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Evidence | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Malaysia | case |
| 7 | Malaysia | Malaysia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 habitation | nmod |
| 8 | dates | date | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 dates | advmod |
| 10 | 40,000 | 40000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dates | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | date back | present | Evidence of modern human habitation in Malaysia | year | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | evidence | modern human habitation in Malaysia | 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Malaysia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malaysia/48/