--- title: While average high temperatures are relatively constant at around 33… — Nouakchott · tree and pragmatics description: While average high temperatures are relatively constant at around 33 C, average low temperatures can range from 25 C during the fall months (in this city fall is hotter than summer, with September and October being the hottest months) to 13 C during the winter months. 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While average high temperatures are relatively constant at around 33 C, average low temperatures can range from 25 C during the fall months (in this city fall is hotter than summer, with September and October being the hottest months) to 13 C during the winter months. **Who acts:** average high temperatures, average low temperatures, city fall, September · **What happens:** be, range · **To what, where:** 33, 25, hottest months This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nouakchott». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (average high temperatures, average low temperatures, city fall, September), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Nouakchott:49 # text = While average high temperatures are relatively constant at around 33 C, average low temperatures can range from 25 C during the fall months (in this city fall is hotter than summer, with September and October being the hottest months) to 13 C during the winter months. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 temperatures temperature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 relatively relatively ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 constant constant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 around around ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 11 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 temperatures temperature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 range range VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 20 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 during during ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 in in SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 28 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 hotter hot ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 parataxis _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 hottest hot ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 amod _ _ 42 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 42 punct _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 46 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:unmarked _ _ 47 during during ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | average high temperatures | | | 33 C | | constant, relatively *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **range** | can | average low temperatures | | | 25 C | month | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 25=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | this city fall | | | | month; summer | to 13 C; hot *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | gerund | September and October | the hottest months | | | | | tree rules | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Nouakchott», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/50/) - ↑ back to [Nouakchott](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nouakchott/)