Victoria, Seychelles, sentence 26
From Wikipedia, «Victoria, Seychelles», 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.
The capital does have noticeably wetter and drier periods during the year, with June and July being its driest months and December through February being the city's wettest months.
Who acts: June · What happens: have, be · To what, where: capital, driest months, wettest months
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Victoria, Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (June), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 capital | det |
| 2 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | noticeably | noticeably | ADV | _ | 6 wetter | advmod |
| 6 | wetter | wet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 periods | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drier | cc |
| 8 | drier | dry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 wetter | conj |
| 9 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 periods | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 June | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 June | case |
| 15 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 months | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 July | cc |
| 17 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 June | conj |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 months | cop |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 months | nmod:poss |
| 20 | driest | dry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 months | amod |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 June | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 December | cc |
| 23 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 June | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 February | case |
| 25 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 June | nmod |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 months | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 months | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 city | case |
| 30 | wettest | wet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 months | amod |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 periods | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | the capital | wetter periods and the city's wettest months obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | course's driest months | course nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | June through February and July and December | the city's wettest months | the city nmod:poss | 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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