Canberra, sentence 173
From Wikipedia, «Canberra», 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 is the third lowest of the capital cities (after Adelaide and Hobart) and is spread fairly evenly over the seasons, with late spring bringing the highest rainfall.
Who acts: Annual rainfall, late spring · What happens: be, spread, bring · To what, where: highest rainfall
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Annual rainfall, late spring), 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 | 6 lowest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lowest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lowest | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 lowest | amod |
| 6 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 spread | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cities | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cities | det |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cities | compound |
| 10 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lowest | obl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Adelaide | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 Adelaide | case |
| 13 | Adelaide | Adelaide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cities | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Hobart | cc |
| 15 | Hobart | Hobart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Adelaide | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Adelaide | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spread | cc |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 spread | aux:pass |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 21 evenly | advmod |
| 21 | evenly | evenly | ADV | _ | 19 spread | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 seasons | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seasons | det |
| 24 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spread | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spring | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 spring | case |
| 27 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 spring | amod |
| 28 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obl |
| 29 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 spring | acl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rainfall | det |
| 31 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 rainfall | amod |
| 32 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bringing | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Annual rainfall | of the capital cities; low property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | present · passive | season; spring | evenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | late spring not said here | the highest rainfall | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rainfall=Theme |
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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