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title: No archaeological evidence that indicates a settlement on the site o… — Bern · tree and pragmatics
description: No archaeological evidence that indicates a settlement on the site of today's city centre prior to the 12th century has been found so far. Who acts: archaeological evidence. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bern» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bern, sentence 21

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From Wikipedia, [«Bern»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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No archaeological evidence that indicates a settlement on the site of today's city centre prior to the 12th century has been found so far.

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**Who acts:** archaeological evidence · **What happens:** indicate, find · **To what, where:** settlement, site, 12th century, archaeological evidence

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bern». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archaeological evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bern:21
# text = No archaeological evidence that indicates a settlement on the site of today's city centre prior to the 12th century has been found so far.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	12th	12th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | no archaeological evidence | a settlement |  | the site of today's city centre |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot settlement=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | the 12th century |  |  |  | far *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bern», 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.

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