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title: Thousands of seals from the Indus Valley civilisation of the third m… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: Thousands of seals from the Indus Valley civilisation of the third millennium BCE have been found, usually carved with animals, but also some with human figures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «India» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# India, sentence 394

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From Wikipedia, [«India»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India), 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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Thousands of seals from the Indus Valley civilisation of the third millennium BCE have been found, usually carved with animals, but also some with human figures.

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**What happens:** find, carve, civilise · **To what, where:** Thousands, third millennium

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «India». 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:India:394
# text = Thousands of seals from the Indus Valley civilisation of the third millennium BCE have been found, usually carved with animals, but also some with human figures.
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | Thousands of seals from the Valley civilisation of the third millennium |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme some=Attribute |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with animals; usually *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **civilise** |  |  | the third millennium |  |  |  |  | nom civilisation «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «India», 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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