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title: Liechtenstein participates in a customs union with Switzerland and e… — Liechtenstein · tree and pragmatics
description: Liechtenstein participates in a customs union with Switzerland and employs the Swiss franc as the national currency. Who acts: Liechtenstein. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Liechtenstein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Liechtenstein, sentence 209

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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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Liechtenstein participates in a customs union with Switzerland and employs the Swiss franc as the national currency.

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**Who acts:** Liechtenstein · **What happens:** participate, employ · **To what, where:** Swiss franc

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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 (Liechtenstein), 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:209
# text = Liechtenstein participates in a customs union with Switzerland and employs the Swiss franc as the national currency.
1	Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	participates	participate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	employs	employ	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	franc	franc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **participate** | present | Liechtenstein |  |  |  |  | in a customs union with Switzerland | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in union=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | present | Liechtenstein *not said here* | the Swiss franc |  |  |  | as the national currency | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent franc=Theme as currency=Attribute |

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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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