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title: The main rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain f… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The main rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain front gradually moves north. Who acts: main rainy season. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 129

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From Wikipedia, [«Japan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan), 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 main rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain front gradually moves north.

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**Who acts:** main rainy season · **What happens:** begin, move · **To what, where:** rain front

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (main rainy season), 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:Japan:129
# text = The main rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain front gradually moves north.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Okinawa	Okinawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	north	north	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | the main rainy season |  |  |  | may |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **move** | present | the main rainy season *not said here* | the rain front |  |  |  | gradually, north *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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, «Japan», 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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