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title: The less humid winters in the mountains may see weeks-long intervals… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The less humid winters in the mountains may see weeks-long intervals of stable conditions. Who acts: humid winters. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 200

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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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The less humid winters in the mountains may see weeks-long intervals of stable conditions.

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**Who acts:** humid winters · **What happens:** see

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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 (humid winters), 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:200
# text = The less humid winters in the mountains may see weeks-long intervals of stable conditions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | may | the humid winters in the mountains |  |  |  | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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