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title: This is a southern wind blowing from one to four days in spring and… — Libya · tree and pragmatics
description: This is a southern wind blowing from one to four days in spring and autumn. Who acts: This, southern wind. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Libya» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Libya, sentence 284

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From Wikipedia, [«Libya»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya), 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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This is a southern wind blowing from one to four days in spring and autumn.

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**Who acts:** This, southern wind · **What happens:** be, blow · **To what, where:** southern wind

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, southern wind), 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:Libya:284
# text = This is a southern wind blowing from one to four days in spring and autumn.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a southern wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | gerund | a southern wind *not said here* |  |  |  | day; spring |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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, «Libya», 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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