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title: Almost no rain falls from November to May, but during the remaining… — Bissau · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost no rain falls from November to May, but during the remaining five months of the year, the city receives around 2000 mm of rain. Who acts: rain, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bissau» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bissau, sentence 43

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From Wikipedia, [«Bissau»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissau), 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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Almost no rain falls from November to May, but during the remaining five months of the year, the city receives around 2000 mm of rain.

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**Who acts:** rain, city · **What happens:** fall, remain, receive · **To what, where:** 2000 mm

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bissau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, city), 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:Bissau:43
# text = Almost no rain falls from November to May, but during the remaining five months of the year, the city receives around 2000 mm of rain.
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | no rain |  |  |  | may; november | almost *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund | no rain *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | present | the city |  |  | 2000 mm of rain |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent around mm=Location |

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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, «Bissau», 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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