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title: The Thar Desert plays a crucial role in attracting the moisture-lade… — India · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of Wikipedia's «India» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# India, sentence 159

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From Wikipedia, [«India»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India), 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 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.

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**Who acts:** Thar Desert · **What happens:** play, attract, lade, wind, provide · **To what, where:** crucial role, laden west summer monsoon, that, majority

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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.

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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:India:159
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Thar	Thar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	crucial	crucial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	attracting	attract	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
11	moisture	moisture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
14	south	south	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
19	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	provide	provide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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, «India», 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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