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title: The climate is influenced by Australia's position in the "horse lati… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: The climate is influenced by Australia's position in the "horse latitudes", which tends to bring arid conditions. Who acts: position, horse latitudes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Australia, sentence 160

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From Wikipedia, [«Australia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The climate is influenced by Australia's position in the "horse latitudes", which tends to bring arid conditions.

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**Who acts:** position, horse latitudes · **What happens:** influence, tend, bring · **To what, where:** climate, arid conditions

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (position, horse latitudes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Australia:160
# text = The climate is influenced by Australia's position in the "horse latitudes", which tends to bring arid conditions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	latitudes	latitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tends	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | present · passive | Australia's position in the horse latitudes | the climate |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **tend** | present | the horse latitudes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the horse latitudes *not said here* | arid conditions |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Australia», 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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