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title: During the southern winter, when the water is abundantly high, the b… — Asunción · tree and pragmatics
description: During the southern winter, when the water is abundantly high, the bay is largely underwater, but towards the end of the season when the water level drops, sandy and clay beaches (tidal marsh) appear. Who acts: water, bay, water level, clay beaches. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Asunción» with its depe
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# Asunción, sentence 115

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From Wikipedia, [«Asunción»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asunción), 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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During the southern winter, when the water is abundantly high, the bay is largely underwater, but towards the end of the season when the water level drops, sandy and clay beaches (tidal marsh) appear.

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**Who acts:** water, bay, water level, clay beaches · **What happens:** be, drop, appear

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asunción». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, bay, water level, clay beaches), 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:Asunción:115
# text = During the southern winter, when the water is abundantly high, the bay is largely underwater, but towards the end of the season when the water level drops, sandy and clay beaches (tidal marsh) appear.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	underwater	underwater	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
32	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
36	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  | winter | abundantly, high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the bay |  |  |  |  | largely, underwater *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop** | present | the water level |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  | towards the end of the season |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **appear** | present | clay beaches |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Asunción», 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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