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title: In 1985, the Swiss Army fired off shells during an exercise and mist… — Liechtenstein · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1985, the Swiss Army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside Liechtenstein. Who acts: Swiss Army. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liechtenstein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liechtenstein, sentence 197

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From Wikipedia, [«Liechtenstein»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein), 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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In 1985, the Swiss Army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside Liechtenstein.

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**Who acts:** Swiss Army · **What happens:** fire off, burn · **To what, where:** shells, 1985, patch, Liechtenstein

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Liechtenstein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swiss Army), 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:Liechtenstein:197
# text = In 1985, the Swiss Army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside Liechtenstein.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1985	1985	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Swiss	Swiss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fired	fire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	mistakenly	mistakenly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fire off** | past | the Swiss Army | shells |  | 1985 | during a exercise |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shell=Theme in 1985=Destination |
| 2 | **burn** | past | the Swiss Army *not said here* | a patch of forest |  | Liechtenstein |  | mistakenly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent patch=Theme |

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