Norway, sentence 30
From Wikipedia, «Norway», 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 oldest finds are stone tools dating from 9500 to 6000 BC, discovered in Finnmark (Komsa culture) in the north and Rogaland (Fosna culture) in the southwest.
Who acts: oldest, stone tools · What happens: be, date, discover · To what, where: stone tools, BC, 9500, Finnmark
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oldest, stone tools), 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 | 2 oldest | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 tools | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 oldest | cop |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tools | cop |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tools | compound |
| 6 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | dating | date | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 tools | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 9500 | case |
| 9 | 9500 | 9500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 dating | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 6000 | case |
| 11 | 6000 | 6000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 9500 | nmod |
| 12 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dating | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 discovered | punct |
| 14 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tools | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Finnmark | case |
| 16 | Finnmark | Finnmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 culture | punct |
| 18 | Komsa | Komsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 culture | compound |
| 19 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Finnmark | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 culture | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 north | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 north | det |
| 23 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Rogaland | cc |
| 25 | Rogaland | Rogaland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 north | conj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 culture | punct |
| 27 | Fosna | Fosna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 culture | compound |
| 28 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Rogaland | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 culture | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 southwest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 southwest | det |
| 32 | southwest | southwest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tools | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | old property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the oldest | stone tools | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | date | gerund | stone tools not said here | BC | 9500 to 6000 | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | discover | past | Finnmark | in the north and Rogaland; in the southwest | 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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