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title: Maximum temperatures are somewhat constant, though morning minima te… — Banjul · tree and pragmatics
description: Maximum temperatures are somewhat constant, though morning minima tend to be hotter during the wet season than the dry season. Who acts: Maximum temperatures, morning minima. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Banjul» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Banjul, sentence 40

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From Wikipedia, [«Banjul»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjul), 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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Maximum temperatures are somewhat constant, though morning minima tend to be hotter during the wet season than the dry season.

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**Who acts:** Maximum temperatures, morning minima · **What happens:** be, tend

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Banjul». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maximum temperatures, morning minima), 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:Banjul:40
# text = Maximum temperatures are somewhat constant, though morning minima tend to be hotter during the wet season than the dry season.
1	Maximum	maximum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	minima	minima	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Maximum temperatures |  |  |  |  | constant, somewhat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tend** | present | morning minima |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | morning minima *not said here* |  |  |  | season | hot *property* | 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, «Banjul», 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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