Switzerland, sentence 557
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 addition, Switzerland has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest thrice, in 1956 (the inaugural edition, held in Lugano), 1989 (Lausanne), and 2025 (Basel), and won three times, through Lys Assia in 1956, Celine Dion in 1988, and Nemo in 2024.
Who acts: 1956 · What happens: host, hold, win · To what, where: Switzerland, addition, inaugural edition, Lugano, Nemo, Lys Assia
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 (1956), 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 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hosted | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 4 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hosted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hosted | aux |
| 6 | hosted | host | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thrice | det |
| 8 | Eurovision | Eurovision | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Song | compound |
| 9 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Contest | compound |
| 10 | Contest | Contest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thrice | compound |
| 11 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hosted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1956 | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1956 | case |
| 14 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 hosted | obl:agent |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 edition | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edition | det |
| 17 | inaugural | inaugural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 edition | amod |
| 18 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 1956 | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 edition | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Lugano | case |
| 22 | Lugano | Lugano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 edition | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 1989 | punct |
| 25 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 1956 | appos |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Lausanne | punct |
| 27 | Lausanne | Lausanne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 1989 | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Lausanne | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 2025 | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 2025 | cc |
| 31 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 hosted | obl:agent |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Basel | punct |
| 33 | Basel | Basel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 2025 | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Basel | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 won | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 won | cc |
| 37 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hosted | parataxis |
| 38 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 times | nummod |
| 39 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 won | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Assia | punct |
| 41 | through | through | ADP | _ | 43 Assia | case |
| 42 | Lys | Lys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Assia | compound |
| 43 | Assia | Assia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 won | obl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 1956 | case |
| 45 | 1956 | 1956 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 Assia | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Celine | punct |
| 47 | Celine | Celine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Assia | conj |
| 48 | Dion | Dion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Celine | flat |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 1988 | case |
| 50 | 1988 | 1988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 won | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Nemo | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Nemo | cc |
| 53 | Nemo | Nemo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 won | obj |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 2024 | case |
| 55 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 won | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hosted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | host | present · perfect · passive | 1956 | Switzerland | addition | the Contest thrice obj; 2025 obl:agent | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme thrice=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | hold | participle | the inaugural edition not said here | Lugano | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lugano=Location | ||||
| 3 | win | past | Nemo | Lys Assia in 1956 and Celine | time | in 1988; in 2024 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nemo=Eventuality |
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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