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title: Prevailing winds are from the southwest, with an average of 15 km/h,… — Santiago · tree and pragmatics
description: Prevailing winds are from the southwest, with an average of 15 km/h, especially during the summer; the winter is less windy. Who acts: Prevailing winds, winter. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Santiago» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Santiago, sentence 215

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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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Prevailing winds are from the southwest, with an average of 15 km/h, especially during the summer; the winter is less windy.

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**Who acts:** Prevailing winds, winter · **What happens:** prevail, be, average · **To what, where:** southwest, 15 km/h

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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 (Prevailing winds, winter), 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:215
# text = Prevailing winds are from the southwest, with an average of 15 km/h, especially during the summer; the winter is less windy.
1	Prevailing	prevail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	km/h	km/h	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Prevailing winds |  |  | the southwest |  | with a average of 15 km/h | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the winter |  |  |  |  | less, windy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **average** |  |  | 15 km/h |  |  |  |  | nom average «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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