--- title: Archaic Homo sapiens fossils excavated at the Jebel Irhoud site in M… — Ethiopia · tree and pragmatics description: Archaic Homo sapiens fossils excavated at the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco have since been dated to an earlier period, about 300,000 years ago, while Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) from southern Ethiopia is the oldest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skeleton currently known (196 ± 5 kya). 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Archaic Homo sapiens fossils excavated at the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco have since been dated to an earlier period, about 300,000 years ago, while Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) from southern Ethiopia is the oldest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skeleton currently known (196 ± 5 kya). **Who acts:** dated oldest modern Homo · **What happens:** excavate, date, be, sapien, know · **To what, where:** Archaic sapiens fossils, Jebel site, southern Ethiopia, dated oldest modern Homo, skeleton This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ethiopia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dated oldest modern Homo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Ethiopia:63 # text = Archaic Homo sapiens fossils excavated at the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco have since been dated to an earlier period, about 300,000 years ago, while Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) from southern Ethiopia is the oldest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skeleton currently known (196 ± 5 kya). 1 Archaic archaic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 Homo Homo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sapiens sapien NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 compound _ _ 4 fossils fossil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 excavated excavate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 Jebel Jebel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 Irhoud Irhoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Morocco Morocco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 since since ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 dated date VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 300,000 300000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 ago ago ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 Omo Omo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Kibish Kibish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 conj _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Omo Omo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 42 anatomically anatomically ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 Homo Homo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 sapiens sapien VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 46 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 47 currently currently ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 advcl _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 196 196 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 parataxis _ _ 51 ± ± SYM SYM _ 52 case _ _ 52 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 53 kya kya NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **excavate** | participle | | Archaic sapiens fossils *not said here* | | the Jebel site | | in Morocco | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at site=Location | | 2 | **date** | present · perfect · passive | | Archaic sapiens fossils | | southern Ethiopia | | to a period; Kibish Omo *parataxis*; ago, since *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | the dated oldest modern Homo | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sapien** | present | the dated oldest modern Homo | skeleton | | | | 196 *parataxis* | tree rules | | 5 | **know** | participle | the dated oldest modern Homo *not said here* | | | | | currently *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ethiopia», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ethiopia/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ethiopia/64/) - ↑ back to [Ethiopia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Ethiopia/)