Switzerland, sentence 118
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.
An important clause of the constitution was that it could be entirely rewritten, if necessary, thus enabling it to evolve as a whole rather than being modified one amendment at a time.
Who acts: clause · What happens: be, enable, evolve, modify · To what, where: important clause, clause, one amendment
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clause | det |
| 2 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clause | amod |
| 3 | clause | clause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rewritten | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 constitution | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 constitution | det |
| 6 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clause | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rewritten | cop |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 rewritten | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rewritten | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 rewritten | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rewritten | aux:pass |
| 12 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 13 rewritten | advmod |
| 13 | rewritten | rewrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 necessary | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 necessary | mark |
| 16 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rewritten | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enabling | punct |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 enabling | advmod |
| 19 | enabling | enable | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 necessary | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 enabling | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 evolve | mark |
| 22 | evolve | evolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 enabling | xcomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 whole | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 whole | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 evolve | obl |
| 26 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 modified | cc |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 rather | fixed |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 modified | aux:pass |
| 29 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 evolve | conj |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 amendment | nummod |
| 31 | amendment | amendment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 evolve | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 evolve | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rewritten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could · past · passive | a important clause of the constitution | clause nsubj:pass; entirely, rewrite property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | enable | gerund | clause | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | evolve | to-infinitive | clause not said here | one amendment | time | as a whole | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 5 | modify | gerund · passive | clause not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
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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