Switzerland, sentence 501
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.
German Helvetisms are, roughly speaking, a large group of words typical of Swiss Standard German that do not appear in Standard German, nor in other German dialects.
Who acts: German Helvetisms, words · What happens: speak, not appear · To what, where: large group, Standard German · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (German Helvetisms, words), 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 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Helvetisms | amod |
| 2 | Helvetisms | helvetism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaking | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 speaking | punct |
| 5 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 6 speaking | advmod |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 speaking | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 group | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 group | amod |
| 10 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 group | nmod |
| 13 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 German | case |
| 15 | Swiss | Swiss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 German | compound |
| 16 | Standard | Standard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 German | compound |
| 17 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 typical | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 appear | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 appear | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 appear | advmod |
| 21 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 words | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 German | case |
| 23 | Standard | Standard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 German | compound |
| 24 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 appear | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dialects | punct |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 dialects | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 dialects | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dialects | amod |
| 29 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dialects | amod |
| 30 | dialects | dialect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 group | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · progressive | German Helvetisms | a large group of words nor other German dialects | roughly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not appear | present · do-support | words | Standard German | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in german=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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