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title: Dating to around 12,500 BP, the oldest evidence of human activity wa… — Bogotá · tree and pragmatics
description: Dating to around 12,500 BP, the oldest evidence of human activity was discovered in El Abra, north of Zipaquirá. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bogotá» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bogotá, sentence 35

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From Wikipedia, [«Bogotá»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogotá), 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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Dating to around 12,500 BP, the oldest evidence of human activity was discovered in El Abra, north of Zipaquirá.

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**What happens:** date, discover · **To what, where:** 12,500 BP, oldest evidence, El

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bogotá». 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.

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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:Bogotá:35
# text = Dating to around 12,500 BP, the oldest evidence of human activity was discovered in El Abra, north of Zipaquirá.
1	Dating	date	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	12,500	12,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	BP	BP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	El	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	Abra	Abra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	north	north	ADV	RB	_	21	compound	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Zipaquirá	Zipaquirá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date** | gerund |  |  | 12,500 BP |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **discover** | past · passive |  | the oldest evidence *not said here* |  | El and north Zipaquirá |  | of human activity | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING» |

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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, «Bogotá», 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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