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title: Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearth… — Qatar · tree and pragmatics
description: Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearthed in the peninsula. Who acts: tools. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Qatar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Qatar, sentence 32

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From Wikipedia, [«Qatar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar), 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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Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearthed in the peninsula.

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**Who acts:** tools · **What happens:** date back, unearth · **To what, where:** Settlements, peninsula

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Qatar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:Qatar:32
# text = Settlements and tools dating back to the Stone Age have been unearthed in the peninsula.
1	Settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	dating	date	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	unearthed	unearth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date back** | gerund | tools *not said here* |  |  |  | to the Stone Age |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **unearth** | present · perfect · passive |  | Settlements and tools |  | the peninsula |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Qatar», 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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