Switzerland, sentence 458
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.
Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway; it handled 31.2 million passengers in 2024.
Who acts: Zurich Airport, network · What happens: be, handle · To what, where: largest international flight gateway, million passengers, 2024
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 (Zurich Airport, 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 | Zurich | Zurich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Airport | compound |
| 2 | Airport | Airport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gateway | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gateway | cop |
| 4 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gateway | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Switzerland | case |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 gateway | amod |
| 7 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gateway | amod |
| 8 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gateway | compound |
| 9 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 handled | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 handled | nsubj |
| 12 | handled | handle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gateway | parataxis |
| 13 | 31.2 | 31.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 million | compound |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 passengers | nummod |
| 15 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 handled | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 2024 | case |
| 17 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 handled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gateway | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Zurich Airport | Switzerland's largest international flight gateway | Switzerland nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | handle | past | network | million passengers | 2024 | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=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.
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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