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title: While the city is relatively dry, due to its coastal location, relat… — Mogadishu · tree and pragmatics
description: While the city is relatively dry, due to its coastal location, relative humidity is rather high, averaging 79% for the year. Who acts: city, due relative humidity. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Mogadishu» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Mogadishu, sentence 328

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From Wikipedia, [«Mogadishu»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu), 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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While the city is relatively dry, due to its coastal location, relative humidity is rather high, averaging 79% for the year.

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**Who acts:** city, due relative humidity · **What happens:** be, average

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mogadishu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, due relative humidity), 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:Mogadishu:328
# text = While the city is relatively dry, due to its coastal location, relative humidity is rather high, averaging 79% for the year.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	relatively	relatively	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	relative	relative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	humidity	humidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	averaging	average	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the city |  |  |  |  | dry, relatively *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | due relative humidity |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **average** | gerund | due relative humidity *not said here* |  |  |  | for the year |  | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=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, «Mogadishu», 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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