Switzerland, sentence 24

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 English name Switzerland compounds Switzer, an obsolete term for a Swiss person which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries, with the common English suffix -land denoting a region or country.

Who acts: English name, Swiss person, common English suffix land · What happens: compound, be, denote · To what, where: Switzer, use, region

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 (English name, Swiss person, common English suffix land), 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	3 name	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 name	amod
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compounds	nsubj
4	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 name	appos
5	compounds	compound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Switzer	Switzer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 compounds	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 term	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 term	det
9	obsolete	obsolete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 term	amod
10	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Switzer	appos
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 person	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
13	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 person	amod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 term	nmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 use	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 use	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 use	case
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 person	acl:relcl
19	during	during	ADP	_	21 16th	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 16th	det
21	16th	16th	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 use	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 centuries	case
23	19th	19th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	24 centuries	amod
24	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 compounds	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 land	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	32 land	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 land	det
28	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 land	amod
29	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 land	amod
30	suffix	suffix	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 land	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 suffix	punct
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compounds	obl
33	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 land	acl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 region	det
35	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 denoting	obj
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 country	cc
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 region	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 compounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compound	present	the English name	Switzer		century	with the common English suffix land	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent switzer=Patient with land=Co-Patient
2	is	past	a Swiss person		use	during the 16th		tree rules
3	denote	gerund	the common English suffix land not said here	a region or country				vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot region=Topic

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, «Switzerland», 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.

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Switzerland, sentence 24