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title: There is a rainy season from May to October, followed by a dry seaso… — Laos · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a rainy season from May to October, followed by a dry season from November to April. Who acts: rainy season. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Laos» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Laos, sentence 32

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From Wikipedia, [«Laos»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos), 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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There is a rainy season from May to October, followed by a dry season from November to April.

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**Who acts:** rainy season · **What happens:** be, follow · **To what, where:** rainy season

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Laos». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:Laos:32
# text = There is a rainy season from May to October, followed by a dry season from November to April.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a rainy season from May to October |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | a rainy season from May to October *not said here* |  |  | season |  | 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, «Laos», 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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