Switzerland, sentence 246
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 constitution outlines rights of individuals and citizen participation in public affairs, divides the powers between the confederation and the cantons and defines federal jurisdiction and authority.
Who acts: constitution · What happens: outline, divide, define · To what, where: rights, powers, federal jurisdiction
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 (constitution), 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 constitution | det |
| 2 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 outlines | nsubj |
| 3 | outlines | outline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 outlines | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 individuals | case |
| 6 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rights | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 participation | cc |
| 8 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 participation | compound |
| 9 | participation | participation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 individuals | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 affairs | case |
| 11 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 affairs | amod |
| 12 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 participation | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 divides | punct |
| 14 | divides | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 outlines | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 powers | det |
| 16 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 divides | obj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 confederation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 confederation | det |
| 19 | confederation | confederation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 powers | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cantons | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cantons | det |
| 22 | cantons | canton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 powers | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 defines | cc |
| 24 | defines | define | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 outlines | conj |
| 25 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 jurisdiction | amod |
| 26 | jurisdiction | jurisdiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 defines | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 authority | cc |
| 28 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jurisdiction | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 outlines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outline speech: other | present | the constitution | rights of individuals and citizen participation in public affairs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Topic | ||||
| 2 | divide | present | the constitution not said here | the powers and the cantons | between the confederation | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | |||
| 3 | define | present | the constitution not said here | federal jurisdiction and authority | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jurisdiction=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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