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title: Upper layers in the same site gave evidence of transition to Neolith… — Cambodia · tree and pragmatics
description: Upper layers in the same site gave evidence of transition to Neolithic, containing the earliest dated earthenware ceramics in Cambodia. Who acts: Upper layers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cambodia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cambodia, sentence 31

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From Wikipedia, [«Cambodia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia), 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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Upper layers in the same site gave evidence of transition to Neolithic, containing the earliest dated earthenware ceramics in Cambodia.

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**Who acts:** Upper layers · **What happens:** give, contain, date, evidence · **To what, where:** evidence, Neolithic, earliest dated earthenware ceramics, Cambodia, transition

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cambodia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Upper layers), 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:Cambodia:31
# text = Upper layers in the same site gave evidence of transition to Neolithic, containing the earliest dated earthenware ceramics in Cambodia.
1	Upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	transition	transition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Neolithic	Neolithic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
17	dated	date	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ceramics	ceramic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Cambodia	Cambodia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Upper layers in the same site | evidence of transition | Neolithic |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme to neolithic=Recipient |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | Upper layers in the same site *not said here* | the earliest dated earthenware ceramics |  | Cambodia |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ceramic=Value in cambodia=Location |
| 3 | **date** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **evidence** |  |  | transition |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Cambodia», 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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