Dili, sentence 256
From Wikipedia, «Dili», 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.
Rainfall is highest in December, averaging 170 mm between 2005 and 2013, and lowest in August, averaging 5.3 mm over the same time period.
Who acts: Rainfall · What happens: be, average · To what, where: 170 mm, 5.3 mm
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dili». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rainfall), 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 | Rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 highest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 highest | cop |
| 3 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 December | case |
| 5 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 highest | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 averaging | punct |
| 7 | averaging | average | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 highest | advcl |
| 8 | 170 | 170 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 mm | nummod |
| 9 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 averaging | obj |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 2005 | case |
| 11 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 mm | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 2013 | cc |
| 13 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 2005 | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lowest | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lowest | cc |
| 16 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 highest | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 August | case |
| 18 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lowest | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 averaging | punct |
| 20 | averaging | average | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 highest | advcl |
| 21 | 5.3 | 5.3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 mm | nummod |
| 22 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 averaging | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 period | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 period | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 period | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 period | compound |
| 27 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 averaging | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 highest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rainfall | december | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | average | gerund | Rainfall not said here | 170 mm | between 2005 | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mm=Theme | |||
| 3 | be | Rainfall not said here | august | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | average | gerund | Rainfall not said here | 5.3 mm | over the same time period | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent mm=Theme over period=Co-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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