Switzerland, sentence 120
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.
The population rejected an early draft in 1872, but modifications led to its acceptance in 1874.
Who acts: population, modifications · What happens: reject, lead, accept · To what, where: early draft, 1872, 1874
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 (population, modifications), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 population | det |
| 2 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rejected | nsubj |
| 3 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 draft | det |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 draft | amod |
| 6 | draft | draft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rejected | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1872 | case |
| 8 | 1872 | 1872 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 rejected | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 11 | modifications | modification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 led | nsubj |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejected | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 acceptance | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 acceptance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | acceptance | acceptance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1874 | case |
| 17 | 1874 | 1874 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 led | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reject | past | the population | a early draft | 1872 | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draft=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | modifications | 1874 | to population's acceptance | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to acceptance=Patient | |||
| 3 | accept | population | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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