South Africa, sentence 37
From Wikipedia, «South Africa», 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.
Various researchers have located pebble tools within the Vaal River valley.
Who acts: Various researchers · What happens: locate · To what, where: pebble tools
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Africa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Various researchers), 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 | Various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 researchers | amod |
| 2 | researchers | researcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 located | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 located | aux |
| 4 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tools | compound |
| 6 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 located | obj |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valley | det |
| 9 | Vaal | Vaal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 River | compound |
| 10 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 valley | compound |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 located | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · perfect | Various researchers | pebble tools | within the River valley | tree rules |
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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