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title: The "short rains" season occurs from October to November/December. — Kenya · tree and pragmatics
description: The "short rains" season occurs from October to November/December. Who acts: rains season. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Kenya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Kenya, sentence 251

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From Wikipedia, [«Kenya»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya), 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 "short rains" season occurs from October to November/December.

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**Who acts:** rains season · **What happens:** occur · **To what, where:** November/December

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kenya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rains 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:Kenya:251
# text = The "short rains" season occurs from October to November/December.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	November/December	November/December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the rains season |  | November/December |  | october |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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, «Kenya», 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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