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title: Humidity is typically higher in the southwest and mountainous areas… — Sri Lanka · tree and pragmatics
description: Humidity is typically higher in the southwest and mountainous areas and depends on the seasonal patterns of rainfall. Who acts: Humidity, rainfall. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Sri Lanka» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sri Lanka, sentence 228

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From Wikipedia, [«Sri Lanka»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka), 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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Humidity is typically higher in the southwest and mountainous areas and depends on the seasonal patterns of rainfall.

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**Who acts:** Humidity, rainfall · **What happens:** be, depend, pattern · **To what, where:** southwest

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sri Lanka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humidity, rainfall), 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:Sri_Lanka:228
# text = Humidity is typically higher in the southwest and mountainous areas and depends on the seasonal patterns of rainfall.
1	Humidity	humidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	mountainous	mountainous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	seasonal	seasonal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Humidity |  |  | the southwest and mountainous areas |  | high, typically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depend** | present | Humidity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the seasonal patterns of rainfall | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on pattern=Theme |
| 3 | **pattern** |  | rainfall |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Sri Lanka», 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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