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title: The archipelago was formed approximately 40–50 million years ago dur… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: The archipelago was formed approximately 40–50 million years ago during the Eocene epoch. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cape Verde, sentence 22

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From Wikipedia, [«Cape Verde»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde), 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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The archipelago was formed approximately 40–50 million years ago during the Eocene epoch.

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**What happens:** form · **To what, where:** archipelago

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Verde». 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:Cape_Verde:22
# text = The archipelago was formed approximately 40–50 million years ago during the Eocene epoch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archipelago	archipelago	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Eocene	Eocene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	epoch	epoch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · passive |  | the archipelago |  |  | during the Eocene epoch | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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, «Cape Verde», 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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