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title: The oldest discovered archaeological evidence of human settlements i… — Nepal · tree and pragmatics
description: The oldest discovered archaeological evidence of human settlements in Nepal dates to around the same time. Who acts: oldest. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nepal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nepal, sentence 42

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From Wikipedia, [«Nepal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal), 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 oldest discovered archaeological evidence of human settlements in Nepal dates to around the same time.

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**Who acts:** oldest · **What happens:** discover, evidence · **To what, where:** archaeological evidence, human settlements

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nepal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oldest), 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:Nepal:42
# text = The oldest discovered archaeological evidence of human settlements in Nepal dates to around the same time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nsubj	_	_
3	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | the oldest | archaeological evidence of human settlements in Nepal dates |  |  | time |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Topic |
| 2 | **evidence** |  |  | human settlements in Nepal dates |  |  |  |  | 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, «Nepal», 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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