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title: In December, London receives about 50 hours of sunshine while coasta… — Cyprus · tree and pragmatics
description: In December, London receives about 50 hours of sunshine while coastal locations in Cyprus about 180 hours (almost as much as in May in London). Who acts: London. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cyprus» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Cyprus, sentence 238

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From Wikipedia, [«Cyprus»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus), 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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In December, London receives about 50 hours of sunshine while coastal locations in Cyprus about 180 hours (almost as much as in May in London).

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**Who acts:** London · **What happens:** receive

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cyprus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (London), 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:Cyprus:238
# text = In December, London receives about 50 hours of sunshine while coastal locations in Cyprus about 180 hours (almost as much as in May in London).
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	locations	location	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Cyprus	Cyprus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	appos	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present | London |  |  |  | december; hour | coastal locations in Cyprus and 180 hours *advcl* | 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, «Cyprus», 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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