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title: Annual rainfall in the coastal area averages 1300 mm or about 51 inc… — Benin · tree and pragmatics
description: Annual rainfall in the coastal area averages 1300 mm or about 51 inches. Who acts: Annual rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Benin» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Benin, sentence 118

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From Wikipedia, [«Benin»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin), 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 in the coastal area averages 1300 mm or about 51 inches.

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**Who acts:** Annual rainfall · **What happens:** average · **To what, where:** 1300 mm

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Benin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Annual rainfall), 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:Benin:118
# text = Annual rainfall in the coastal area averages 1300 mm or about 51 inches.
1	Annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	averages	average	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	1300	1300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	51	51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **average** | present | Annual rainfall in the coastal area | 1300 mm or 51 inches |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mm=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, «Benin», 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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