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title: Showers or thunderstorms may occur because of the summer monsoon cal… — Slovakia · tree and pragmatics
description: Showers or thunderstorms may occur because of the summer monsoon called Medardova kvapka (Medard drop – 40 days of rain). Who acts: Showers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Slovakia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Slovakia, sentence 326

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From Wikipedia, [«Slovakia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia), 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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Showers or thunderstorms may occur because of the summer monsoon called Medardova kvapka (Medard drop – 40 days of rain).

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**Who acts:** Showers · **What happens:** occur, call · **To what, where:** summer monsoon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovakia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Showers), 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:Slovakia:326
# text = Showers or thunderstorms may occur because of the summer monsoon called Medardova kvapka (Medard drop – 40 days of rain).
1	Showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	thunderstorms	thunderstorm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Medardova	Medardova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	kvapka	kvapka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Medard	Medard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
18	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | may | Showers or thunderstorms |  |  |  |  | because the summer monsoon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the summer monsoon *not said here* |  |  |  | Medardova *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Slovakia», 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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