Switzerland, sentence 115
From Wikipedia, «Switzerland», 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.
A single system of weights and measures was introduced, and in 1850, the Swiss franc became the Swiss single currency, complemented by the WIR franc in 1934.
Who acts: Swiss franc · What happens: introduce, become, complement · To what, where: single system, Swiss single currency, 1850, 1934
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Switzerland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swiss franc), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 system | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 system | amod |
| 3 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 weights | case |
| 5 | weights | weight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 system | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 measures | cc |
| 7 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weights | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 introduced | aux:pass |
| 9 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1850 | case |
| 13 | 1850 | 1850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 became | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1850 | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 franc | det |
| 16 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 franc | amod |
| 17 | franc | franc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | nsubj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 introduced | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 currency | det |
| 20 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 currency | amod |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 currency | amod |
| 22 | currency | currency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 complemented | punct |
| 24 | complemented | complement | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 currency | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 franc | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 franc | det |
| 27 | WIR | WIR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 franc | compound |
| 28 | franc | franc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 complemented | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1934 | case |
| 30 | 1934 | 1934 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 complemented | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | past · passive | a single system of weights and measures | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | become | past | the Swiss franc | the Swiss single currency | in 1850 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1850=Result | |||
| 3 | complement | participle | the Swiss single currency not said here | 1934 | by the WIR franc | 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.
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