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title: The capital does have noticeably wetter and drier periods during the… — Victoria, Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: The capital does have noticeably wetter and drier periods during the year, with June and July being its driest months and December through February being the city's wettest months. Who acts: June. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Victoria, Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Victoria, Seychelles, sentence 26

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From Wikipedia, [«Victoria, Seychelles»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_Seychelles), 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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The capital does have noticeably wetter and drier periods during the year, with June and July being its driest months and December through February being the city's wettest months.

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**Who acts:** June · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** capital, driest months, wettest months

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Victoria, Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (June), 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:Victoria,_Seychelles:26
# text = The capital does have noticeably wetter and drier periods during the year, with June and July being its driest months and December through February being the city's wettest months.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	noticeably	noticeably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wetter	wet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	driest	dry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	wettest	wet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support |  | the capital |  |  |  | wetter periods and the city's wettest months *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | course's driest months |  |  |  | course *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | June through February and July and December | the city's wettest months |  |  |  | the city *nmod:poss* | 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, «Victoria, Seychelles», 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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