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title: It is believed that the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was a major si… — Eritrea · tree and pragmatics
description: It is believed that the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was a major site of human evolution and may contain other archaeological links between Homo erectus hominids and anatomically modern humans. Who acts: Danakil Depression. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Eritrea» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Eritrea, sentence 38

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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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It is believed that the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was a major site of human evolution and may contain other archaeological links between Homo erectus hominids and anatomically modern humans.

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**Who acts:** Danakil Depression · **What happens:** believe, be, contain · **To what, where:** find, major site, other archaeological links

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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: who acts (Danakil Depression), 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:38
# text = It is believed that the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was a major site of human evolution and may contain other archaeological links between Homo erectus hominids and anatomically modern humans.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Danakil	Danakil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Depression	Depression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Eritrea	Eritrea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	evolution	evolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Homo	Homo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	erectus	erectus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	hominids	hominid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	anatomically	anatomically	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · passive |  | find |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Danakil Depression in Eritrea | a major site |  |  |  | of human evolution | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** | may |  | other archaeological links |  |  |  | between Homo erectus hominids and modern humans | vn comprise-107.2-2 «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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