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title: The beginning and end of the rainy season is marked by strong thunde… — Freetown · tree and pragmatics
description: The beginning and end of the rainy season is marked by strong thunderstorms. Who acts: strong thunderstorms. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Freetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Freetown, sentence 109

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From Wikipedia, [«Freetown»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown), 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 beginning and end of the rainy season is marked by strong thunderstorms.

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**Who acts:** strong thunderstorms · **What happens:** mark · **To what, where:** beginning

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Freetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong thunderstorms), 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:Freetown:109
# text = The beginning and end of the rainy season is marked by strong thunderstorms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thunderstorms	thunderstorm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | present · passive | strong thunderstorms | the beginning and end of the rainy season |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |

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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, «Freetown», 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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