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title: The average temperature in Portugal varies from 4-20 °C in the mainl… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: The average temperature in Portugal varies from 4-20 °C in the mainland, around 18 °C in the Azores, and 9-19 °C in Madeira. Who acts: average temperature. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 130

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From Wikipedia, [«Portugal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal), 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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The average temperature in Portugal varies from 4-20 °C in the mainland, around 18 °C in the Azores, and 9-19 °C in Madeira.

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**Who acts:** average temperature · **What happens:** vary · **To what, where:** 4-20

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Portugal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (average temperature), 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:Portugal:130
# text = The average temperature in Portugal varies from 4-20 °C in the mainland, around 18 °C in the Azores, and 9-19 °C in Madeira.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	varies	vary	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	4-20	4-20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
17	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Azores	Azores	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	9-19	9-19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	°	°	SYM	SYM	_	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Madeira	Madeira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | the average temperature in Portugal |  |  | 4-20  ° C |  | in the mainland; 9-19 ° C in Madeira *parataxis* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from 4-20=Intial\_State in mainland=Attribute |

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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, «Portugal», 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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