São Tomé, sentence 23

From Wikipedia, «São Tomé», 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.

São Tomé features a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen As), although it is not far above a semi-arid climate (BSh) due to the influence of the cold Benguela Current, which makes even the wettest months drier than would be expected for such a low latitude but at the same time makes the city very cloudy and foggy even during the almost rainless dry season mid-year.

Who acts: São, climate, cold Benguela Current · What happens: feature, be, make, expect · To what, where: tropical wet climate, semi-arid climate, city

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (São, climate, cold Benguela Current), 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	São	São	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 features	nsubj
2	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 São	flat
3	features	feature	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 climate	det
5	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 climate	amod
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 climate	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dry	cc
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wet	conj
9	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 features	obj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 As	punct
11	Köppen	Köppen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 As	compound
12	As	As	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 climate	appos
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 As	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 climate	punct
15	although	although	SCONJ	_	23 climate	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 climate	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 climate	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 climate	advmod
20	above	above	ADP	_	23 climate	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 climate	det
22	semi-arid	semi-arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 climate	amod
23	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 features	obl
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 BSh	punct
25	BSh	BSh	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 climate	appos
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 BSh	punct
27	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	30 influence	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	27 due	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 influence	det
30	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climate	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 Current	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Current	det
33	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Current	amod
34	Benguela	Benguela	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Current	compound
35	Current	Current	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 influence	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 makes	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 makes	nsubj
38	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 Current	acl:relcl
39	even	even	ADV	_	42 months	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 months	det
41	wettest	wet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 months	amod
42	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 drier	obl:unmarked
43	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 makes	xcomp
44	than	than	SCONJ	_	47 expected	mark
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 expected	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 expected	aux:pass
47	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 drier	advcl
48	for	for	ADP	_	52 latitude	case
49	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	52 latitude	det:predet
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 latitude	det
51	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 latitude	amod
52	latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 expected	obl
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 time	cc
54	at	at	ADP	_	57 time	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 time	det
56	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 time	amod
57	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 latitude	conj
58	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 makes	conj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 city	det
60	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 makes	obj
61	very	very	ADV	_	62 cloudy	advmod
62	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 city	amod
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 foggy	cc
64	foggy	foggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 cloudy	conj
65	even	even	ADV	_	72 mid-year	advmod
66	during	during	ADP	_	72 mid-year	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 mid-year	det
68	almost	almost	ADV	_	69 rainless	advmod
69	rainless	rainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 mid-year	amod
70	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 season	amod
71	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 mid-year	compound
72	mid-year	mid-year	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cloudy	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 features	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feature	present	São	a tropical wet climate			tree rules
2	is	present	climate		a semi-arid climate	due the influence of the cold Benguela Current; BSh appos; far property	tree rules
3	make	present	the cold Benguela Current			dry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	expect	would · passive	the cold Benguela Current not said here			for such low latitude but the same time	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»
5	make	present	the cold Benguela Current not said here	the city			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «São Tomé», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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São Tomé, sentence 23