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title: Sunshine is lower in the wet season than the dry season, with August… — Conakry · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunshine is lower in the wet season than the dry season, with August receiving the least sunshine and March receiving the most. Who acts: Sunshine, August, least sunshine. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Conakry» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Conakry, sentence 21

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From Wikipedia, [«Conakry»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conakry), 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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Sunshine is lower in the wet season than the dry season, with August receiving the least sunshine and March receiving the most.

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**Who acts:** Sunshine, August, least sunshine · **What happens:** be, receive · **To what, where:** least sunshine

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Conakry». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunshine, August, least sunshine), 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:Conakry:21
# text = Sunshine is lower in the wet season than the dry season, with August receiving the least sunshine and March receiving the most.
1	Sunshine	Sunshine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sunshine |  |  |  | season | low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | August | the least sunshine and March |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | gerund | the least sunshine and March *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Conakry», 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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