Liechtenstein, sentence 197
From Wikipedia, «Liechtenstein», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In 1985, the Swiss Army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside Liechtenstein.
Who acts: Swiss Army · What happens: fire off, burn · To what, where: shells, 1985, patch, Liechtenstein
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Liechtenstein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swiss Army), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1985 | case |
| 2 | 1985 | 1985 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 fired | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1985 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Army | det |
| 5 | Swiss | Swiss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Army | compound |
| 6 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fired | nsubj |
| 7 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 fired | compound:prt |
| 9 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fired | obj |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 exercise | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 exercise | det |
| 12 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fired | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 burned | cc |
| 14 | mistakenly | mistakenly | ADV | _ | 15 burned | advmod |
| 15 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fired | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 patch | det |
| 17 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burned | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 patch | nmod |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 21 Liechtenstein | case |
| 21 | Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 burned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire off | past | the Swiss Army | shells | 1985 | during a exercise | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shell=Theme in 1985=Destination | ||
| 2 | burn | past | the Swiss Army not said here | a patch of forest | Liechtenstein | mistakenly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent patch=Theme |
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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