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title: There is evidence of human settlement on the northern coastline of B… — Manama · tree and pragmatics
description: There is evidence of human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain dating back to the Bronze Age. Who acts: evidence, northern coastline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Manama» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Manama, sentence 25

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From Wikipedia, [«Manama»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manama), 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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There is evidence of human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain dating back to the Bronze Age.

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**Who acts:** evidence, northern coastline · **What happens:** be, date back, evidence · **To what, where:** human settlement

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evidence, northern coastline), 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:Manama:25
# text = There is evidence of human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain dating back to the Bronze Age.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	dating	date	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Bronze	Bronze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | evidence of human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **date back** | gerund | the northern coastline of Bahrain *not said here* |  |  |  | to the Bronze Age |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **evidence** |  |  | human settlement on the northern coastline of Bahrain |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition 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, «Manama», 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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