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title: Modern humans arrived in Japan around 38,000 years ago (~36,000 BC),… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Modern humans arrived in Japan around 38,000 years ago (~36,000 BC), marking the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic. Who acts: Modern humans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 31

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From Wikipedia, [«Japan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan), 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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Modern humans arrived in Japan around 38,000 years ago (~36,000 BC), marking the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic.

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**Who acts:** Modern humans · **What happens:** arrive, mark, begin · **To what, where:** Japan, beginning, Japanese Paleolithic

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Modern humans), 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:Japan:31
# text = Modern humans arrived in Japan around 38,000 years ago (~36,000 BC), marking the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic.
1	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	38,000	38000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	~	~	SYM	SYM	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	36,000	36,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
13	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Paleolithic	Paleolithic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Modern humans |  |  | Japan |  | ~ 36,000  BC; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund | Modern humans *not said here* | the beginning of the Japanese Paleolithic |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the Japanese Paleolithic |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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, «Japan», 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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