Mongolia, sentence 38
From Wikipedia, «Mongolia», 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 wheeled vehicles found in the burials of the Afanasevans have been dated to before 2200 BC.
What happens: wheel, find, date, bury · To what, where: wheeled vehicles, burials, Afanasevans
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mongolia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 vehicles | det |
| 2 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vehicles | amod |
| 3 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vehicles | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 burials | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 burials | det |
| 7 | burials | burial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Afanasevans | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Afanasevans | det |
| 10 | Afanasevans | Afanasevan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 burials | nmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dated | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 dated | aux:pass |
| 13 | dated | date | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 2200 | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 2200 | case |
| 16 | 2200 | 2200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 dated | obl |
| 17 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 2200 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wheel | participle | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | find | participle | the wheeled vehicles not said here | the burials of the Afanasevans | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | date | present · perfect · passive | the wheeled vehicles | to 2200 BC | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | bury | the Afanasevans | nom burial «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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Mongolia», 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/Mongolia/38/