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title: Rainfall is highest in December, averaging 170 mm between 2005 and 2… — Dili · tree and pragmatics
description: Rainfall is highest in December, averaging 170 mm between 2005 and 2013, and lowest in August, averaging 5.3 mm over the same time period. Who acts: Rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Dili» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Dili, sentence 256

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From Wikipedia, [«Dili»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dili), 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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Rainfall is highest in December, averaging 170 mm between 2005 and 2013, and lowest in August, averaging 5.3 mm over the same time period.

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**Who acts:** Rainfall · **What happens:** be, average · **To what, where:** 170 mm, 5.3 mm

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dili». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:Dili:256
# text = Rainfall is highest in December, averaging 170 mm between 2005 and 2013, and lowest in August, averaging 5.3 mm over the same time period.
1	Rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	averaging	average	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	170	170	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	averaging	average	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
21	5.3	5.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | Rainfall |  |  |  | december | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **average** | gerund | Rainfall *not said here* | 170 mm |  |  |  | between 2005 | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mm=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | Rainfall *not said here* |  |  |  | august |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **average** | gerund | Rainfall *not said here* | 5.3 mm |  |  |  | over the same time period | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent mm=Theme over period=Co-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, «Dili», 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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