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title: Because of the city's northern latitude, daylight varies greatly, fr… — Oslo · tree and pragmatics
description: Because of the city's northern latitude, daylight varies greatly, from more than 18 hours in midsummer, when it never gets completely dark at night (no darker than nautical twilight), to around 6 hours in midwinter. Who acts: daylight. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Oslo» with its dependency tree and pr
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# Oslo, sentence 139

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From Wikipedia, [«Oslo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo), 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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Because of the city's northern latitude, daylight varies greatly, from more than 18 hours in midsummer, when it never gets completely dark at night (no darker than nautical twilight), to around 6 hours in midwinter.

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**Who acts:** daylight · **What happens:** vary, not get · **To what, where:** midsummer

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Oslo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daylight), 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:Oslo:139
# text = Because of the city's northern latitude, daylight varies greatly, from more than 18 hours in midsummer, when it never gets completely dark at night (no darker than nautical twilight), to around 6 hours in midwinter.
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	varies	vary	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	nautical	nautical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	around	around	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	parataxis	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | daylight |  |  | midsummer | hour | because the city's northern latitude; greatly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **get** | present | daylight |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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, «Oslo», 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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