Bissau, sentence 43
From Wikipedia, «Bissau», 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.
Almost no rain falls from November to May, but during the remaining five months of the year, the city receives around 2000 mm of rain.
Who acts: rain, city · What happens: fall, remain, receive · To what, where: 2000 mm
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bissau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, city), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 falls | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 rain | det |
| 3 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | nsubj |
| 4 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 November | case |
| 6 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 May | case |
| 8 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remaining | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 remaining | cc |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 remaining | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 remaining | det |
| 13 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 falls | conj |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 months | nummod |
| 15 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 remaining | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 months | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 receives | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 receives | nsubj |
| 22 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 remaining | advcl |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 mm | case |
| 24 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 mm | nummod |
| 25 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 receives | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rain | case |
| 27 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mm | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 falls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | no rain | may; november | almost property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | gerund | no rain not said here | month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | present | the city | 2000 mm of rain | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent around mm=Location |
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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