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title: There is significant variation within the city, with rainfall at the… — Santiago · tree and pragmatics
description: There is significant variation within the city, with rainfall at the lower-elevation Pudahuel site near the airport being about 20 percent lower than at the older Quinta Normal site near the city center. Who acts: significant variation, Pudahuel site. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santiago» with its de
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# Santiago, sentence 200

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From Wikipedia, [«Santiago»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago), 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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There is significant variation within the city, with rainfall at the lower-elevation Pudahuel site near the airport being about 20 percent lower than at the older Quinta Normal site near the city center.

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**Who acts:** significant variation, Pudahuel site · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lower elevation

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santiago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (significant variation, Pudahuel site), 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:Santiago:200
# text = There is significant variation within the city, with rainfall at the lower-elevation Pudahuel site near the airport being about 20 percent lower than at the older Quinta Normal site near the city center.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	significant	significant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	variation	variation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	lower	lower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
16	Pudahuel	Pudahuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	airport	airport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
30	Quinta	Quinta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	Normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	near	near	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | significant variation |  |  | there |  | within the city | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Pudahuel site |  |  | the lower elevation |  | near the airport; than the older Quinta Normal site near the city center; 20 percent *obl:unmarked*; low *property* | tree rules |

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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, «Santiago», 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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