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title: Temperatures are fairly constant throughout the year, averaging arou… — Monrovia · tree and pragmatics
description: Temperatures are fairly constant throughout the year, averaging around 79.5 F. Who acts: Temperatures. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Monrovia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Monrovia, sentence 61

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From Wikipedia, [«Monrovia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monrovia), 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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Temperatures are fairly constant throughout the year, averaging around 79.5 F.

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**Who acts:** Temperatures · **What happens:** be, average · **To what, where:** 79.5

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Monrovia». 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:Monrovia:61
# text = Temperatures are fairly constant throughout the year, averaging around 79.5 F.
1	Temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	averaging	average	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	around	around	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	79.5	79.5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	F	F	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Temperatures |  |  |  | year | constant, fairly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **average** | gerund | Temperatures *not said here* | 79.5  F |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Monrovia», 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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