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title: Although low-lying areas north of the Tropic of Cancer are hot and h… — Mexico · tree and pragmatics
description: Although low-lying areas north of the Tropic of Cancer are hot and humid during the summer, they generally have lower yearly temperature averages (from 20 to 24 C) because of more moderate conditions during the winter. Who acts: temperatures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mexico» with its dependency tr
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# Mexico, sentence 243

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From Wikipedia, [«Mexico»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico), 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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Although low-lying areas north of the Tropic of Cancer are hot and humid during the summer, they generally have lower yearly temperature averages (from 20 to 24 C) because of more moderate conditions during the winter.

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**Who acts:** temperatures · **What happens:** lie, be, have · **To what, where:** lower yearly temperature averages

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (temperatures), 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:Mexico:243
# text = Although low-lying areas north of the Tropic of Cancer are hot and humid during the summer, they generally have lower yearly temperature averages (from 20 to 24 C) because of more moderate conditions during the winter.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
6	north	north	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tropic	Tropic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Cancer	Cancer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
24	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	averages	average	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
34	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	38	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
37	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
39	during	during	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | although lying areas of the Tropic of Cancer; hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  | summer |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | temperatures *= temperature* | lower yearly temperature averages |  |  |  | because more moderate conditions during the winter; generally *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Patient |

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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, «Mexico», 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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