Djibouti City, sentence 82
From Wikipedia, «Djibouti City», 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.
It is lowest during the rainy period, when there is some coastal fog and greater cloud coverage as warm air passes over the cool sea surface.
Who acts: city, coastal fog, warm air · What happens: be, pass · To what, where: greater cloud coverage, cool sea surface
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, coastal fog, warm air), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lowest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lowest | cop |
| 3 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 period | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 period | det |
| 6 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 period | amod |
| 7 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lowest | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 is | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lowest | parataxis |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 fog | det |
| 13 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fog | amod |
| 14 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coverage | cc |
| 16 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 coverage | amod |
| 17 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coverage | compound |
| 18 | coverage | coverage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fog | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 passes | mark |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 air | amod |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 passes | nsubj |
| 22 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 coverage | acl:relcl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 surface | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 surface | det |
| 25 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 surface | amod |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 surface | compound |
| 27 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 passes | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lowest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | city | during the rainy period | low property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | does | present | some coastal fog and greater cloud coverage | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | warm air | greater cloud coverage not said here | the cool sea surface | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coverage=Theme over surface=Destination |
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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