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title: Stone tools found in the country from hundreds of thousands of years… — Yamoussoukro · tree and pragmatics
description: Stone tools found in the country from hundreds of thousands of years ago show that the area around Yamoussoukro has been occupied since ancient times. Who acts: Stone tools. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Yamoussoukro» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Yamoussoukro, sentence 9

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From Wikipedia, [«Yamoussoukro»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamoussoukro), 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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Stone tools found in the country from hundreds of thousands of years ago show that the area around Yamoussoukro has been occupied since ancient times.

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**Who acts:** Stone tools · **What happens:** find, show, occupy · **To what, where:** Stone tools, country, area · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yamoussoukro». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:Yamoussoukro:9
# text = Stone tools found in the country from hundreds of thousands of years ago show that the area around Yamoussoukro has been occupied since ancient times.
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Yamoussoukro	Yamoussoukro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
23	since	since	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle |  | Stone tools *not said here* |  | the country |  | from hundreds of thousands of years | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from hundred=Source |
| 2 | **show** | present | Stone tools |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **occupy** | present · perfect · passive |  | the area around Yamoussoukro |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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, «Yamoussoukro», 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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