Nouakchott, sentence 49
From Wikipedia, «Nouakchott», 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.
While average high temperatures are relatively constant at around 33 C, average low temperatures can range from 25 C during the fall months (in this city fall is hotter than summer, with September and October being the hottest months) to 13 C during the winter months.
Who acts: average high temperatures, average low temperatures, city fall, September · What happens: be, range · To what, where: 33, 25, hottest months
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nouakchott». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (average high temperatures, average low temperatures, city fall, September), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 constant | mark |
| 2 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 temperatures | amod |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 temperatures | amod |
| 4 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 constant | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 constant | cop |
| 6 | relatively | relatively | ADV | _ | 7 constant | advmod |
| 7 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 range | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 33 | case |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 33 | advmod |
| 10 | 33 | 33 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 constant | obl |
| 11 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 33 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 constant | punct |
| 13 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 temperatures | amod |
| 14 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 temperatures | amod |
| 15 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 range | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 range | aux |
| 17 | range | range | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 25 | case |
| 19 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 range | obl |
| 20 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 months | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 months | det |
| 23 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 months | compound |
| 24 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 range | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 hotter | punct |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 31 hotter | mark |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 fall | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fall | compound |
| 29 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hotter | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 hotter | cop |
| 31 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 range | parataxis |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 summer | case |
| 33 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hotter | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 September | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 September | case |
| 36 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 months | nsubj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 October | cc |
| 38 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 September | conj |
| 39 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 months | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 months | det |
| 41 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 months | amod |
| 42 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hotter | obl |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 months | punct |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 13 | case |
| 45 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 hotter | obl |
| 46 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 13 | nmod:unmarked |
| 47 | during | during | ADP | _ | 50 months | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 months | det |
| 49 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 months | compound |
| 50 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hotter | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 range | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | average high temperatures | 33 C | constant, relatively property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | range | can | average low temperatures | 25 C | month | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 25=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | this city fall | month; summer | to 13 C; hot property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | gerund | September and October | the hottest months | 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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