Switzerland, sentence 446
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 densest rail network in Europe spans 5250 km and carried 614 million passengers in 2023.
Who acts: densest rail network · What happens: span, carry · To what, where: 5250 km, million passengers, 2023
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 (densest rail network), 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 | 4 network | det |
| 2 | densest | dense | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 network | amod |
| 3 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 network | compound |
| 4 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spans | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 network | nmod |
| 7 | spans | span | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 5250 | 5250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 km | nummod |
| 9 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spans | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spans | conj |
| 12 | 614 | 614 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 million | compound |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 passengers | nummod |
| 14 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carried | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 2023 | case |
| 16 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | span | present | the densest rail network in Europe | 5250 km | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the densest rail network in Europe not said here | million passengers | 2023 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent passenger=Value in 2023=Location |
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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