Yamoussoukro, sentence 9
From Wikipedia, «Yamoussoukro», 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.
Stone tools found in the country from hundreds of thousands of years ago show that the area around Yamoussoukro has been occupied since ancient times.
Who acts: Stone tools · What happens: find, show, occupy · To what, where: Stone tools, country, area · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yamoussoukro». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tools | compound |
| 2 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tools | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hundreds | case |
| 8 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thousands | case |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hundreds | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 years | advmod |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 occupied | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 area | det |
| 17 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 occupied | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 Yamoussoukro | case |
| 19 | Yamoussoukro | Yamoussoukro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 area | nmod |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 occupied | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 occupied | aux:pass |
| 22 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 show | ccomp |
| 23 | since | since | ADP | _ | 25 times | case |
| 24 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 times | amod |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 occupied | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | Stone tools not said here | the country | from hundreds of thousands of years | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from hundred=Source | |||
| 2 | show | present | Stone tools | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | occupy | present · perfect · passive | the area around Yamoussoukro | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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