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title: This fossil has been said to reveal significant stages in human evol… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
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# Eritrea, sentence 36

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From Wikipedia, [«Eritrea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea), 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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This fossil has been said to reveal significant stages in human evolution and to represent a possible link between the earlier Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens.

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**What happens:** say, reveal, represent · **To what, where:** fossil, significant stages, human evolution, possible link · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eritrea». 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:Eritrea:36
# text = This fossil has been said to reveal significant stages in human evolution and to represent a possible link between the earlier Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stages	stage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
22	Homo	homo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	erectus	erectus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Homo	homo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	sapiens	sapien	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | this fossil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reveal** | to-infinitive |  | significant stages |  | human evolution |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Topic |
| 3 | **represent** | to-infinitive |  | a possible link |  |  |  | between the earlier Homo erectus and a archaic Homo sapiens | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot link=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, «Eritrea», 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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