Switzerland, sentence 49
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.
In 15 BC, Tiberius (later the second Roman emperor) and his brother Drusus conquered the Alps, integrating them into the Roman Empire.
Who acts: Tiberius · What happens: conquer, integrate · To what, where: Alps, 15
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 (Tiberius), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 15 | case |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 conquered | obl |
| 3 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 15 | punct |
| 5 | Tiberius | Tiberius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 conquered | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 emperor | punct |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 emperor | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emperor | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 emperor | amod |
| 10 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 emperor | amod |
| 11 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tiberius | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 emperor | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brother | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tiberius | conj |
| 16 | Drusus | Drusus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | appos |
| 17 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Alps | det |
| 19 | Alps | Alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 conquered | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 integrating | punct |
| 21 | integrating | integrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 conquered | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 integrating | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 Empire | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Empire | det |
| 25 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Empire | compound |
| 26 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 integrating | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Tiberius and BC's brother | the Alps | 15 BC | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alp=Patient | |||
| 2 | integrate | gerund | Tiberius and BC's brother not said here | Alps = alp | into the Roman Empire | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient into empire=Co-Patient |
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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