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title: Despite relatively low annual precipitation, London receives 109.6 r… — London · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite relatively low annual precipitation, London receives 109.6 rainy days on the 1 mm threshold annually. Who acts: London. A sentence of Wikipedia's «London» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# London, sentence 170

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From Wikipedia, [«London»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), 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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Despite relatively low annual precipitation, London receives 109.6 rainy days on the 1 mm threshold annually.

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**Who acts:** London · **What happens:** receive · **To what, where:** mm threshold

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «London». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (London), 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:London:170
# text = Despite relatively low annual precipitation, London receives 109.6 rainy days on the 1 mm threshold annually.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	109.6	109.6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present | London |  |  | the mm threshold | day | despite low annual precipitation; annually *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on threshold=Location |

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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, «London», 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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