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title: It is lowest during the rainy period, when there is some coastal fog… — Djibouti City · tree and pragmatics
description: It is lowest during the rainy period, when there is some coastal fog and greater cloud coverage as warm air passes over the cool sea surface. Who acts: city, coastal fog, warm air. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Djibouti City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Djibouti City, sentence 82

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From Wikipedia, [«Djibouti City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti_City), 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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It is lowest during the rainy period, when there is some coastal fog and greater cloud coverage as warm air passes over the cool sea surface.

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**Who acts:** city, coastal fog, warm air · **What happens:** be, pass · **To what, where:** greater cloud coverage, cool sea surface

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, coastal fog, warm air), 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:Djibouti_City:82
# text = It is lowest during the rainy period, when there is some coastal fog and greater cloud coverage as warm air passes over the cool sea surface.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	coverage	coverage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	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 | city |  |  |  | during the rainy period | low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | some coastal fog and greater cloud coverage |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | warm air | greater cloud coverage *not said here* |  | the cool sea surface |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coverage=Theme over surface=Destination |

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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, «Djibouti City», 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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