Baghdad, sentence 280

From Wikipedia, «Baghdad», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Annual rainfall, almost entirely confined to the period from November through March, averages approximately 150 mm, but has been as high as 338 mm and as low as 37 mm.

What happens: confine, be · To what, where: Annual rainfall, period

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Baghdad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rainfall	amod
2	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 confined	punct
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 entirely	advmod
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 confined	advmod
6	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rainfall	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 period	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 period	det
9	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confined	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 November	case
11	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 confined	obl
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 March	case
13	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 November	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 averages	punct
15	averages	average	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rainfall	conj
16	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	17 150	advmod
17	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 mm	nummod
18	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 averages	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 high	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 high	cc
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 high	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 high	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 high	advmod
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rainfall	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 mm	case
26	338	338	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 mm	nummod
27	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 high	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 low	cc
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 low	advmod
30	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 high	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 mm	case
32	37	37	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 mm	nummod
33	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 low	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rainfall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	participle	Annual rainfall and averages 150 mm not said here	the period	november	entirely property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to period=Destination
2	is	present · perfect				as 338 mm; high property	tree rules
3	be					as 37 mm	tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Baghdad, sentence 280