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title: Jilaal, or winter, falls in the coolest and driest months of the yea… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: Jilaal, or winter, falls in the coolest and driest months of the year (from late November to early March). Who acts: Jilaal. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Somaliland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Somaliland, sentence 343

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From Wikipedia, [«Somaliland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland), 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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Jilaal, or winter, falls in the coolest and driest months of the year (from late November to early March).

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**Who acts:** Jilaal · **What happens:** fall

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somaliland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jilaal), 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:Somaliland:343
# text = Jilaal, or winter, falls in the coolest and driest months of the year (from late November to early March).
1	Jilaal	Jilaal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	coolest	cool	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	driest	dry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	conj	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Jilaal |  |  |  | month |  | vn occur-48.3 «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, «Somaliland», 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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