--- title: However, due to the latitude, the days around the winter solstice ar… — Helsinki · tree and pragmatics description: However, due to the latitude, the days around the winter solstice are 5 hours and 48 minutes long, with the sun very low (at noon the sun is just over 6 degrees in the sky), and the cloudy weather at this time of year exacerbates the darkness. Who acts: days, sun, cloudy weather. 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However, due to the latitude, the days around the winter solstice are 5 hours and 48 minutes long, with the sun very low (at noon the sun is just over 6 degrees in the sky), and the cloudy weather at this time of year exacerbates the darkness. **Who acts:** days, sun, cloudy weather · **What happens:** be, exacerbate · **To what, where:** 5 hours, 6 degrees, sky, darkness This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Helsinki». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, sun, cloudy weather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Helsinki:123 # text = However, due to the latitude, the days around the winter solstice are 5 hours and 48 minutes long, with the sun very low (at noon the sun is just over 6 degrees in the sky), and the cloudy weather at this time of year exacerbates the darkness. 1 However however ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 6 case _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 latitude latitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 10 around around ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 solstice solstice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 48 48 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 with with SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 over over ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 parataxis _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 exacerbates exacerbate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the days around the winter solstice | 5 hours and 48 minutes | | | | due the latitude | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the sun | 6 degrees | | the sky | noon | | tree rules | | 3 | **exacerbate** | present | the cloudy weather at this time of year | the darkness | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent darkness=Patient | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Helsinki», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Helsinki/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Helsinki/124/) - ↑ back to [Helsinki](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Helsinki/)