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title: The shift from the dry northeast monsoon to the moist southwest mons… — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: The shift from the dry northeast monsoon to the moist southwest monsoon occurs during April and May. Who acts: shift. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 206

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From Wikipedia, [«Maldives»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives), 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 shift from the dry northeast monsoon to the moist southwest monsoon occurs during April and May.

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**Who acts:** shift · **What happens:** occur

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maldives». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shift), 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:Maldives:206
# text = The shift from the dry northeast monsoon to the moist southwest monsoon occurs during April and May.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
13	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the shift from the dry northeast monsoon to the moist southwest monsoon |  |  |  | april |  | 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, «Maldives», 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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