---
title: Rainfall is heaviest in June and October and lightest from December… — Havana · tree and pragmatics
description: Rainfall is heaviest in June and October and lightest from December through April, averaging 1200 mm annually. Who acts: Rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Havana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Havana/140/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Havana](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Havana/) / 140

# Havana, sentence 140

<!-- div src -->

From Wikipedia, [«Havana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana), 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rainfall is heaviest in June and October and lightest from December through April, averaging 1200 mm annually.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Rainfall · **What happens:** be, average · **To what, where:** 1200 mm

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Havana». 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:Havana:140
# text = Rainfall is heaviest in June and October and lightest from December through April, averaging 1200 mm annually.
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	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lightest	light	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	averaging	average	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	1200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rainfall |  |  |  | april; june | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Rainfall *not said here* |  |  |  | december |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **average** | gerund | Rainfall *not said here* | 1200 mm |  |  |  | annually *property* | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mm=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Havana», 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Havana/139/)
- next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Havana/141/)
- ↑ back to [Havana](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Havana/)