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title: The rock art had been known to the area's inhabitants for centuries… — Hargeisa · tree and pragmatics
description: The rock art had been known to the area's inhabitants for centuries before the French discovery. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Hargeisa» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Hargeisa, sentence 19

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From Wikipedia, [«Hargeisa»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hargeisa), 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 rock art had been known to the area's inhabitants for centuries before the French discovery.

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** rock art

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Hargeisa». 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:Hargeisa:19
# text = The rock art had been known to the area's inhabitants for centuries before the French discovery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rock art |  |  | before the French discovery; century | to the area's inhabitants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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, «Hargeisa», 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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