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title: The local climate is equatorial and characterised by the annual sout… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: The local climate is equatorial and characterised by the annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons. Who acts: local climate. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 239

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From Wikipedia, [«Malaysia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia), 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 local climate is equatorial and characterised by the annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons.

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**Who acts:** local climate · **What happens:** be, characteris

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (local climate), 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:Malaysia:239
# text = The local climate is equatorial and characterised by the annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	equatorial	equatorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	characterised	characteris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
24	monsoons	monsoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the local climate |  |  |  |  | equatorial *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **characteris** | participle | the local climate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the annual southwest and northeast and monsoons | tree rules |

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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, «Malaysia», 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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