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title: The oldest finds are stone tools dating from 9500 to 6000 BC, discov… — Norway · tree and pragmatics
description: The oldest finds are stone tools dating from 9500 to 6000 BC, discovered in Finnmark (Komsa culture) in the north and Rogaland (Fosna culture) in the southwest. Who acts: oldest, stone tools. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Norway» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Norway, sentence 30

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From Wikipedia, [«Norway»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway), 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 finds are stone tools dating from 9500 to 6000 BC, discovered in Finnmark (Komsa culture) in the north and Rogaland (Fosna culture) in the southwest.

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**Who acts:** oldest, stone tools · **What happens:** be, date, discover · **To what, where:** stone tools, BC, 9500, Finnmark

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oldest, stone tools), 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:Norway:30
# text = The oldest finds are stone tools dating from 9500 to 6000 BC, discovered in Finnmark (Komsa culture) in the north and Rogaland (Fosna culture) in the southwest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	dating	date	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	9500	9500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	6000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Finnmark	Finnmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Komsa	Komsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Rogaland	Rogaland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Fosna	Fosna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the oldest | stone tools |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **date** | gerund | stone tools *not said here* | BC |  | 9500 to 6000 |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **discover** | past |  |  |  | Finnmark |  | in the north and Rogaland; in the southwest | 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, «Norway», 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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