Switzerland, sentence 65
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 territories of present-day Switzerland became divided into Middle Francia and East Francia until they were reunified under the Holy Roman Empire around 1000 AD.
What happens: divide, reunify · To what, where: territories, Middle Francia, Francia, Holy Roman Empire
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: 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 | 2 territories | det |
| 2 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 present | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 territories | nmod |
| 7 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 day | appos |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 divided | aux:pass |
| 9 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 Francia | case |
| 11 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Francia | compound |
| 12 | Francia | Francia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 divided | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 East | cc |
| 14 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Francia | conj |
| 15 | Francia | Francia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 East | flat |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 reunified | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reunified | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reunified | aux:pass |
| 19 | reunified | reunify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 divided | advcl |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 Empire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Empire | det |
| 22 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 24 Empire | compound |
| 23 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Empire | compound |
| 24 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reunified | obl |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 AD | case |
| 26 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 AD | nummod |
| 27 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reunified | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past · passive | the territories of present day | Middle Francia and East | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reunify | past · passive | Francia | the Holy Roman Empire | around 1000 AD | tree rules |
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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