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Summers are generally hot and humid, with the East Asian monsoon taking place from June until September; these are also the hottest months, with average temperatures of 21 to 25 °C, and daytime highs often above 30 °C. Although largely transitional seasons, spring and autumn experience more pleasant weather, with average high temperatures ranging from 20 to 26 °C in May and 22 to 27 °C in September, coupled with relatively clear, sunny skies. **Who acts:** Summers, East Asian monsoon, these, hottest months, average high temperatures · **What happens:** be, take, experience, range, couple · **To what, where:** place, hottest months, pleasant weather, 20, average high temperatures This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pyongyang». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Summers, East Asian monsoon, these, hottest months), 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:Pyongyang:113 # text = Summers are generally hot and humid, with the East Asian monsoon taking place from June until September; these are also the hottest months, with average temperatures of 21 to 25 °C, and daytime highs often above 30 °C. Although largely transitional seasons, spring and autumn experience more pleasant weather, with average high temperatures ranging from 20 to 26 °C in May and 22 to 27 °C in September, coupled with relatively clear, sunny skies. 1 Summers summer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 generally generally ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 humid humid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 Asian Asian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 monsoon monsoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 13 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 until until ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 hottest hot ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 temperatures temperature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ _ 34 ° ° SYM SYM _ 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 C c NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 daytime daytime NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 highs high NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 40 often often ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 above above ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 43 ° ° SYM SYM _ 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 C. c. NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 45 Although although ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 46 largely largely ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 transitional transitional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 appos _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 53 experience experience VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 54 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 55 advmod _ _ 55 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 58 with with ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 59 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 60 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 temperatures temperature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 parataxis _ _ 62 ranging range VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 61 acl _ _ 63 from from ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 62 obl _ _ 65 to to ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 64 nmod _ _ 67 ° ° SYM SYM _ 68 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 68 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 64 nmod:unmarked _ _ 69 in in ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 nmod _ _ 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 72 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 76 nummod _ _ 73 to to ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 72 nmod _ _ 75 ° ° SYM SYM _ 76 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 76 C C PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 conj _ _ 77 in in ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 78 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 76 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 79 , , PUNCT , _ 80 punct _ _ 80 coupled couple VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 61 acl _ _ 81 with with ADP IN _ 86 case _ _ 82 relatively relatively ADV RB _ 83 advmod _ _ 83 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 86 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 84 , , PUNCT , _ 83 punct _ _ 85 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 86 amod _ _ 86 skies sky NOUN NNS Number=Plur 80 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 87 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Summers | | | | | the East Asian monsoon *parataxis*; generally, hot *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Summers *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | gerund | the East Asian monsoon *not said here* | place | | | june; september | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | these | the hottest months and average temperatures of 21 to 25 ° C and daytime highs 30 ° C. transitional seasons | | | | average temperatures of 21 to 25 ° C *conj*; daytime highs 30 ° C. transitional seasons *conj* | tree rules | | 5 | **experience** | present | the hottest months and average temperatures of 21 to 25 ° C and daytime highs 30 ° C. transitional seasons | pleasant weather | | | | average high temperatures in May and 22 ° C in September *parataxis* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weather=Stimulus | | 6 | **range** | gerund | average high temperatures in May and 22 ° C in September *not said here* | | | 20 to 26 ° C | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 20=Location | | 7 | **couple** | participle | | average high temperatures in May and 22 ° C in September *not said here* | | | | with clear sunny skies | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sky=Co-Patient | 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, «Pyongyang», 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/114/) - ↑ back to [Pyongyang](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Pyongyang/)