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title: Prevailing winds in the interior are light to moderate northeast or… — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: Prevailing winds in the interior are light to moderate northeast or southwest, and in the coastal area, prevailing winds are determined by local features. Who acts: Prevailing winds, local features. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Croatia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Croatia, sentence 198

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From Wikipedia, [«Croatia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia), 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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Prevailing winds in the interior are light to moderate northeast or southwest, and in the coastal area, prevailing winds are determined by local features.

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**Who acts:** Prevailing winds, local features · **What happens:** prevail, be, moderate, determine · **To what, where:** northeast, prevailing winds, coastal area

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prevailing winds, local features), 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:Croatia:198
# text = Prevailing winds in the interior are light to moderate northeast or southwest, and in the coastal area, prevailing winds are determined by local features.
1	Prevailing	prevail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	moderate	moderate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	prevailing	prevail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Prevailing winds in the interior |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **moderate** | to-infinitive | Prevailing winds in the interior *not said here* | northeast or southwest |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent northeast=Patient |
| 4 | **prevail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **determine** | present · passive | local features | prevailing winds |  | the coastal area |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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, «Croatia», 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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