India, sentence 159
From Wikipedia, «India», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The Thar Desert plays a crucial role in attracting the moisture-laden south-west summer monsoon winds that, between June and October, provide the majority of India's rainfall.
Who acts: Thar Desert · What happens: play, attract, lade, wind, provide · To what, where: crucial role, laden west summer monsoon, that, majority
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «India». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thar Desert), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Desert | det |
| 2 | Thar | Thar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Desert | compound |
| 3 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | nsubj |
| 4 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 role | det |
| 6 | crucial | crucial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 role | amod |
| 7 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 attracting | mark |
| 9 | attracting | attract | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 winds | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 monsoon | det |
| 11 | moisture | moisture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laden | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 moisture | punct |
| 13 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 monsoon | amod |
| 14 | south | south | ADV | _ | 16 west | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 south | punct |
| 16 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monsoon | amod |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 monsoon | compound |
| 18 | monsoon | monsoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attracting | obj |
| 19 | winds | wind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plays | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 winds | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 June | punct |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 June | case |
| 23 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 winds | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 October | cc |
| 25 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 June | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 provide | punct |
| 27 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 plays | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 majority | det |
| 29 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 provide | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 rainfall | case |
| 31 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 rainfall | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 India | case |
| 33 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 majority | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | the Thar Desert | a crucial role | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attract | gerund | the laden west summer monsoon | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monsoon=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lade | participle | moisture compound | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wind | present | the Thar Desert not said here | that | june | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 5 | provide | infinitive | the majority of India's rainfall | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition majority=Theme |
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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