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title: Annual rainfall is the third lowest of the capital cities (after Ade… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: Annual rainfall is the third lowest of the capital cities (after Adelaide and Hobart) and is spread fairly evenly over the seasons, with late spring bringing the highest rainfall. Who acts: Annual rainfall, late spring. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 173

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From Wikipedia, [«Canberra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra), 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 is the third lowest of the capital cities (after Adelaide and Hobart) and is spread fairly evenly over the seasons, with late spring bringing the highest rainfall.

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**Who acts:** Annual rainfall, late spring · **What happens:** be, spread, bring · **To what, where:** highest rainfall

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». 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, late spring), 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:Canberra:173
# text = Annual rainfall is the third lowest of the capital cities (after Adelaide and Hobart) and is spread fairly evenly over the seasons, with late spring bringing the highest rainfall.
1	Annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Adelaide	Adelaide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Hobart	Hobart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	evenly	evenly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Annual rainfall |  |  |  |  | of the capital cities; low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | season; spring | evenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | late spring *not said here* | the highest rainfall |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rainfall=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, «Canberra», 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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