Switzerland, sentence 31
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 name was extended to the area dominated by the canton, and after the Swabian War of 1499 gradually came to be used for the entire Confederation.
What happens: extend, dominate, come, use · To what, where: name, area
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: 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 extended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 extended | aux:pass |
| 4 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 area | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 area | det |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 extended | obl |
| 8 | dominated | dominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 area | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 canton | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 canton | det |
| 11 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dominated | obl:agent |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 War | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 War | det |
| 16 | Swabian | Swabian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 War | compound |
| 17 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 1499 | case |
| 19 | 1499 | 1499 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 War | nmod |
| 20 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 extended | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 used | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 used | aux:pass |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 came | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Confederation | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Confederation | det |
| 27 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Confederation | amod |
| 28 | Confederation | confederation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 used | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | past · passive | the name | the area | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to area=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | dominate | participle | the area not said here | the canton obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | after the Swabian War of 1499 | gradually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive · passive | for the entire Confederation | vn eat-39.1 «NP 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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