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title: However, little rain falls from November to March, which is also the… — Juba · tree and pragmatics
description: However, little rain falls from November to March, which is also the time of the year with the hottest maximum temperatures, reaching 100 °F in February. Who acts: little rain, March. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Juba» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Juba, sentence 129

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From Wikipedia, [«Juba»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba), 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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However, little rain falls from November to March, which is also the time of the year with the hottest maximum temperatures, reaching 100 °F in February.

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**Who acts:** little rain, March · **What happens:** fall, be, reach · **To what, where:** time, 100 ° F

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Juba». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little rain, March), 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:Juba:129
# text = However, little rain falls from November to March, which is also the time of the year with the hottest maximum temperatures, reaching 100 °F in February.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
22	maximum	maximum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
26	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	F	F	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | little rain |  |  |  | march; november | however *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | March | the time |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | gerund | little rain *not said here* | 100 ° F |  |  | february |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent f=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, «Juba», 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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