Somalia, sentence 306
From Wikipedia, «Somalia», 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.
This period is characterised by the southwest monsoons, which rejuvenate pasture land, especially the central plateau, and briefly transform desert into lush vegetation.
Who acts: southwest monsoons · What happens: characteris, rejuvenate, transform · To what, where: period, pasture land, desert, lush vegetation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somalia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (southwest monsoons), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 period | det |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 characterised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 characterised | aux:pass |
| 4 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 monsoons | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monsoons | det |
| 7 | southwest | southwest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 monsoons | amod |
| 8 | monsoons | monsoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 characterised | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rejuvenate | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rejuvenate | nsubj |
| 11 | rejuvenate | rejuvenate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 monsoons | acl:relcl |
| 12 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | compound |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rejuvenate | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plateau | punct |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 18 plateau | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plateau | det |
| 17 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plateau | amod |
| 18 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 transform | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 transform | cc |
| 21 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 22 transform | advmod |
| 22 | transform | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 characterised | conj |
| 23 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 transform | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 vegetation | case |
| 25 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 vegetation | amod |
| 26 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 transform | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 characterised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characteris | present · passive | the southwest monsoons | this period | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rejuvenate | present | the southwest monsoons | pasture land and the central plateau | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | transform | present | the southwest monsoons not said here | desert | into lush vegetation result; briefly property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent desert=Patient into vegetation=Result |
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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