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title: For instance, in 1987, the fourth wettest year on record with 712.1… — Santiago · tree and pragmatics
description: For instance, in 1987, the fourth wettest year on record with 712.1 mm, there was only 1.7 mm in the 36 days between 3 June and 8 July, followed by 537.2 mm in the 38 days between 9 July and 15 August. Who acts: 1.7 mm. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santiago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Santiago, sentence 204

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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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For instance, in 1987, the fourth wettest year on record with 712.1 mm, there was only 1.7 mm in the 36 days between 3 June and 8 July, followed by 537.2 mm in the 38 days between 9 July and 15 August.

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**Who acts:** 1.7 mm · **What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** 1.7 mm

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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 (1.7 mm), 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:204
# text = For instance, in 1987, the fourth wettest year on record with 712.1 mm, there was only 1.7 mm in the 36 days between 3 June and 8 July, followed by 537.2 mm in the 38 days between 9 July and 15 August.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1987	1987	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	wettest	wet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	712.1	712.1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	1.7	1.7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	mm	mm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	537.2	537.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	38	38	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
41	between	between	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nmod	_	_
43	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:unmarked	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | 1.7 mm in the 36 days between 3 June and 8 July |  |  | there |  | for instance in 1987 and the fourth wettest year on record with 712.1 mm | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | 1.7 mm in the 36 days between 3 June and 8 July *not said here* |  |  |  | by 537.2 mm in the 38 days between 9  July and 15 August | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mm=Location |

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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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