---
title: In the autumn of 2004, an archaeological expedition known as Teouma… — Port Vila · tree and pragmatics
description: In the autumn of 2004, an archaeological expedition known as Teouma discovered a burial site of 25 tombs containing three dozen skeletons of members of the Lapita culture. Who acts: archaeological expedition, 25 tombs. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Port Vila» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Port Vila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/) / 13

# Port Vila, sentence 13

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Port Vila»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Vila), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In the autumn of 2004, an archaeological expedition known as Teouma discovered a burial site of 25 tombs containing three dozen skeletons of members of the Lapita culture.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** archaeological expedition, 25 tombs · **What happens:** know, discover, contain · **To what, where:** archaeological expedition, burial site, dozen skeletons

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Vila». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archaeological expedition, 25 tombs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Port_Vila:13
# text = In the autumn of 2004, an archaeological expedition known as Teouma discovered a burial site of 25 tombs containing three dozen skeletons of members of the Lapita culture.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	archaeological	archaeological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Teouma	Teouma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Lapita	Lapita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | a archaeological expedition *not said here* |  |  |  | as Teouma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as teouma=Attribute |
| 2 | **discover** | past | a archaeological expedition | a burial site of 25 tombs |  |  | autumn |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Topic |
| 3 | **contain** | gerund | 25 tombs *not said here* | dozen skeletons of members of the Lapita culture |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skeleton=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Port Vila», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/12/)
- next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/14/)
- ↑ back to [Port Vila](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Port_Vila/)