Manama, sentence 25
From Wikipedia, «Manama», 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.
There is evidence of human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain dating back to the Bronze Age.
Who acts: evidence, northern coastline · What happens: be, date back, evidence · To what, where: human settlement
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evidence, northern coastline), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 settlement | case |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 settlement | amod |
| 6 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evidence | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 coastline | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coastline | det |
| 9 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coastline | amod |
| 10 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 settlement | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Bahrain | case |
| 12 | Bahrain | Bahrain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coastline | nmod |
| 13 | dating | date | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 coastline | acl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 dating | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Age | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Age | det |
| 17 | Bronze | Bronze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Age | compound |
| 18 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dating | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | evidence of human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | date back | gerund | the northern coastline of Bahrain not said here | to the Bronze Age | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | evidence | human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain | 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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