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title: The southwest monsoon (known as the habagat) lasts from May to Octob… — Philippines · tree and pragmatics
description: The southwest monsoon (known as the habagat) lasts from May to October. Who acts: southwest monsoon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Philippines» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Philippines, sentence 163

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From Wikipedia, [«Philippines»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines), 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 southwest monsoon (known as the habagat) lasts from May to October.

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**Who acts:** southwest monsoon · **What happens:** know, last · **To what, where:** southwest monsoon

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Philippines». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (southwest monsoon), 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:Philippines:163
# text = The southwest monsoon (known as the habagat) lasts from May to October.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	southwest	southwest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	habagat	habagat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
10	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | the southwest monsoon *not said here* |  |  |  | as the habagat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as habagat=Attribute |
| 2 | **last** | present | the southwest monsoon |  |  |  | may; october |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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