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title: Germany borders Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic… — Germany · tree and pragmatics
description: Germany borders Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Germany» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Germany, sentence 4

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From Wikipedia, [«Germany»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Germany borders Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west.

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**To what, where:** Austria

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Germany:4
# text = Germany borders Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west.
1	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
3	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Czech	Czech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Austria	Austria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Germany», 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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