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title: São Tomé features a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen As), althou… — São Tomé · tree and pragmatics
description: São Tomé features a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen As), although it is not far above a semi-arid climate (BSh) due to the influence of the cold Benguela Current, which makes even the wettest months drier than would be expected for such a low latitude but at the same time makes the city very cl
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# São Tomé, sentence 23

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From Wikipedia, [«São Tomé»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Tomé), 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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São Tomé features a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen As), although it is not far above a semi-arid climate (BSh) due to the influence of the cold Benguela Current, which makes even the wettest months drier than would be expected for such a low latitude but at the same time makes the city very cloudy and foggy even during the almost rainless dry season mid-year.

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**Who acts:** São, climate, cold Benguela Current · **What happens:** feature, be, make, expect · **To what, where:** tropical wet climate, semi-arid climate, city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (São, climate, cold Benguela Current), 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:São_Tomé:23
# text = São Tomé features a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen As), although it is not far above a semi-arid climate (BSh) due to the influence of the cold Benguela Current, which makes even the wettest months drier than would be expected for such a low latitude but at the same time makes the city very cloudy and foggy even during the almost rainless dry season mid-year.
1	São	São	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tomé	Tomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	features	feature	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Köppen	Köppen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	As	As	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	semi-arid	semi-arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	BSh	BSh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Benguela	Benguela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Current	Current	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wettest	wet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	42	amod	_	_
42	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	xcomp	_	_
44	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	52	det:predet	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
58	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	very	very	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	foggy	foggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	conj	_	_
65	even	even	ADV	RB	_	72	advmod	_	_
66	during	during	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
68	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
69	rainless	rainless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
70	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	_
72	mid-year	mid-year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feature** | present | São | a tropical wet climate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | climate |  |  | a semi-arid climate |  | due the influence of the cold Benguela Current; BSh *appos*; far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | the cold Benguela Current |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **expect** | would · passive | the cold Benguela Current *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for such low latitude but the same time | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |
| 5 | **make** | present | the cold Benguela Current *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product |

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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, «São Tomé», 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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