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title: This period is characterised by the southwest monsoons, which rejuve… — Somalia · tree and pragmatics
description: This period is characterised by the southwest monsoons, which rejuvenate pasture land, especially the central plateau, and briefly transform desert into lush vegetation. Who acts: southwest monsoons. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somalia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somalia, sentence 306

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From Wikipedia, [«Somalia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia), 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 period is characterised by the southwest monsoons, which rejuvenate pasture land, especially the central plateau, and briefly transform desert into lush vegetation.

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**Who acts:** southwest monsoons · **What happens:** characteris, rejuvenate, transform · **To what, where:** period, pasture land, desert, lush vegetation

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somalia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (southwest monsoons), 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:Somalia:306
# text = This period is characterised by the southwest monsoons, which rejuvenate pasture land, especially the central plateau, and briefly transform desert into lush vegetation.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	characterised	characteris	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	southwest	southwest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	monsoons	monsoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rejuvenate	rejuvenate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	transform	transform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	lush	lush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characteris** | present · passive | the southwest monsoons | this period |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rejuvenate** | present | the southwest monsoons | pasture land and the central plateau |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer |
| 3 | **transform** | present | the southwest monsoons *not said here* | desert |  |  |  | into lush vegetation *result*; briefly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent desert=Patient into vegetation=Result |

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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, «Somalia», 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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