Mexico City, sentence 38
From Wikipedia, «Mexico City», 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.
However, a 2003 study placed the age of the Peñon woman at 12,700 years old (calendar age), one of the oldest human remains discovered in the Americas.
Who acts: 2003 study, one · What happens: place, discover · To what, where: age, Americas
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2003 study, one), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 placed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 study | det |
| 4 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 study | compound |
| 5 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | nsubj |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 age | det |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | Peñon | Peñon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | compound |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 age | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | 12,700 | 12,700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 placed | obl |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 age | punct |
| 18 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 age | compound |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 old | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 age | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 discovered | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 remains | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 remains | det |
| 25 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 remains | amod |
| 26 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 remains | amod |
| 27 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 one | nmod |
| 28 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Americas | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Americas | det |
| 31 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 discovered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | a 2003 study | the age of the Peñon woman | year | however property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme | ||
| 2 | discover | past | one of the oldest human remains | the Americas | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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