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title: Annual rainfall, almost entirely confined to the period from Novembe… — Baghdad · tree and pragmatics
description: Annual rainfall, almost entirely confined to the period from November through March, averages approximately 150 mm, but has been as high as 338 mm and as low as 37 mm. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Baghdad» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Baghdad, sentence 280

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From Wikipedia, [«Baghdad»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad), 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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Annual rainfall, almost entirely confined to the period from November through March, averages approximately 150 mm, but has been as high as 338 mm and as low as 37 mm.

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**What happens:** confine, be · **To what, where:** Annual rainfall, period

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Baghdad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Baghdad:280
# text = Annual rainfall, almost entirely confined to the period from November through March, averages approximately 150 mm, but has been as high as 338 mm and as low as 37 mm.
1	Annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	averages	average	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
16	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	338	338	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** | participle |  | Annual rainfall and averages  150 mm *not said here* |  | the period | november | entirely *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to period=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | as 338 mm; high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | as 37 mm | tree rules |

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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, «Baghdad», 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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