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title: However, a 2003 study placed the age of the Peñon woman at 12,700 ye… — Mexico City · tree and pragmatics
description: However, a 2003 study placed the age of the Peñon woman at 12,700 years old (calendar age), one of the oldest human remains discovered in the Americas. Who acts: 2003 study, one. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mexico City, sentence 38

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From Wikipedia, [«Mexico City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City), 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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However, a 2003 study placed the age of the Peñon woman at 12,700 years old (calendar age), one of the oldest human remains discovered in the Americas.

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**Who acts:** 2003 study, one · **What happens:** place, discover · **To what, where:** age, Americas

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (2003 study, one), 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:Mexico_City:38
# text = However, a 2003 study placed the age of the Peñon woman at 12,700 years old (calendar age), one of the oldest human remains discovered in the Americas.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	2003	2003	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Peñon	Peñon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	12,700	12,700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
26	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	nmod	_	_
28	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | a 2003 study | the age of the Peñon woman |  |  | year | however *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
| 2 | **discover** | past | one of the oldest human remains |  |  | the Americas |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Mexico City», 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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