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title: The archipelago can be divided into four broad ecological zones – ar… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: The archipelago can be divided into four broad ecological zones – arid, semiarid, sub-humid and humid, according to altitude and average annual rainfall ranging from less than 100 mm in the arid areas of the coast as in the Deserto de Viana (67 mm in Sal Rei) to more than 1,000 mm in the humid mount
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# Cape Verde, sentence 122

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From Wikipedia, [«Cape Verde»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde), 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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The archipelago can be divided into four broad ecological zones – arid, semiarid, sub-humid and humid, according to altitude and average annual rainfall ranging from less than 100 mm in the arid areas of the coast as in the Deserto de Viana (67 mm in Sal Rei) to more than 1,000 mm in the humid mountain.

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**Who acts:** average annual rainfall · **What happens:** divide, accord, range · **To what, where:** archipelago, four broad ecological zones, 100 mm

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Verde». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (average 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:Cape_Verde:122
# text = The archipelago can be divided into four broad ecological zones – arid, semiarid, sub-humid and humid, according to altitude and average annual rainfall ranging from less than 100 mm in the arid areas of the coast as in the Deserto de Viana (67 mm in Sal Rei) to more than 1,000 mm in the humid mountain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archipelago	archipelago	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	ecological	ecological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	semiarid	semiarid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sub-humid	sub-humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	altitude	altitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	ranging	range	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	Deserto	Deserto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
44	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	_
45	Viana	Viana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	67	67	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Sal	Sal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	Rei	Rei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	56	advmod	_	_
55	than	than	ADP	IN	_	54	fixed	_	_
56	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | can · passive |  | the archipelago |  | four broad ecological zones |  | as the Deserto Viana; to 1,000 mm in the humid mountain; altitude and average annual rainfall *parataxis* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **range** | gerund | average annual rainfall *not said here* |  |  | 100 mm |  | in the arid areas of the coast | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 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, «Cape Verde», 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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