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title: Vietnam receives high rates of precipitation in the form of rainfall… — Vietnam · tree and pragmatics
description: Vietnam receives high rates of precipitation in the form of rainfall with an average amount from 1500 to 2000 mm during the monsoon seasons; this often causes flooding, especially in the cities with poor drainage systems. Who acts: Vietnam, this. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vietnam» with its dependen
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# Vietnam, sentence 207

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From Wikipedia, [«Vietnam»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam), 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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Vietnam receives high rates of precipitation in the form of rainfall with an average amount from 1500 to 2000 mm during the monsoon seasons; this often causes flooding, especially in the cities with poor drainage systems.

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**Who acts:** Vietnam, this · **What happens:** receive, cause, form · **To what, where:** high rates, form, flooding, cities, rainfall

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vietnam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vietnam, this), 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:Vietnam:207
# text = Vietnam receives high rates of precipitation in the form of rainfall with an average amount from 1500 to 2000 mm during the monsoon seasons; this often causes flooding, especially in the cities with poor drainage systems.
1	Vietnam	Vietnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	mm	mm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	flooding	flooding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	drainage	drainage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present | Vietnam | high rates of precipitation |  | the form of rainfall |  | with a average amount from 1500 to 2000 mm during the monsoon seasons | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rate=Theme in form=Location |
| 2 | **cause** | present | this | flooding |  | the cities with poor drainage systems |  | often *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flooding=Patient |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | rainfall |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Vietnam», 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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