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title: A single system of weights and measures was introduced, and in 1850,… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: A single system of weights and measures was introduced, and in 1850, the Swiss franc became the Swiss single currency, complemented by the WIR franc in 1934. Who acts: Swiss franc. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 115

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From Wikipedia, [«Switzerland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland), 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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A single system of weights and measures was introduced, and in 1850, the Swiss franc became the Swiss single currency, complemented by the WIR franc in 1934.

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**Who acts:** Swiss franc · **What happens:** introduce, become, complement · **To what, where:** single system, Swiss single currency, 1850, 1934

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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 (Swiss franc), 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:Switzerland:115
# text = A single system of weights and measures was introduced, and in 1850, the Swiss franc became the Swiss single currency, complemented by the WIR franc in 1934.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weights	weight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1850	1850	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	franc	franc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	complemented	complement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	WIR	WIR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	franc	franc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1934	1934	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past · passive |  | a single system of weights and measures |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | the Swiss franc | the Swiss single currency |  |  |  | in 1850 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1850=Result |
| 3 | **complement** | participle |  | the Swiss single currency *not said here* |  | 1934 |  | by the WIR franc | tree rules |

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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, «Switzerland», 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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