Switzerland, sentence 351
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.
Swiss citizens are prohibited from serving in foreign armies, except for the Swiss Guards of the Vatican, or if they are dual citizens of a foreign country and reside there.
Who acts: Swiss Guards, citizens · What happens: prohibit, serve, be, reside · To what, where: Swiss citizens, dual citizens
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 (Swiss Guards, citizens), 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 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 citizens | amod |
| 2 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prohibited | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prohibited | aux:pass |
| 4 | prohibited | prohibit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 serving | mark |
| 6 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prohibited | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 armies | case |
| 8 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 armies | amod |
| 9 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 serving | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Guards | punct |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 Guards | case |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Guards | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Guards | det |
| 14 | Swiss | Swiss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Guards | compound |
| 15 | Guards | Guard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 prohibited | obl:agent |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Vatican | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Vatican | det |
| 18 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Guards | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 citizens | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 citizens | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 citizens | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 citizens | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 citizens | cop |
| 24 | dual | dual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 citizens | amod |
| 25 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prohibited | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 country | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 country | det |
| 28 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 country | amod |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 citizens | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 reside | cc |
| 31 | reside | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prohibited | conj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 reside | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prohibited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prohibit | present · passive | the Swiss Guards of the Vatican | Swiss citizens | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | gerund | the Swiss Guards of the Vatican not said here | in foreign armies | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in army=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | citizens = citizen | dual citizens | of a foreign country | tree rules | |||
| 4 | reside | infinitive | the Swiss Guards of the Vatican not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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