--- title: The dry season is subdivided into the cool dry season (May/June to A… — Zambia · tree and pragmatics description: The dry season is subdivided into the cool dry season (May/June to August), and the hot dry season (September to October/November). A sentence of Wikipedia's «Zambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zambia/188/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Zambia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zambia/) / 188 # Zambia, sentence 188 From Wikipedia, [«Zambia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia), 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. The dry season is subdivided into the cool dry season (May/June to August), and the hot dry season (September to October/November). **What happens:** subdivide · **To what, where:** dry season This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Zambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:Zambia:188 # text = The dry season is subdivided into the cool dry season (May/June to August), and the hot dry season (September to October/November). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 subdivided subdivide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 May/June May/June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 October/November October/November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **subdivide** | present · passive | | the dry season | | | season | | tree rules | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Zambia», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zambia/187/) - next →: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zambia/189/) - ↑ back to [Zambia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Zambia/)