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title: The wettest conditions persist in the high Alps and in the Ticino ca… — Switzerland · tree and pragmatics
description: The wettest conditions persist in the high Alps and in the Ticino canton, which has much sun yet heavy bursts of rain from time to time. Who acts: wettest conditions, Ticino canton. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Switzerland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Switzerland, sentence 207

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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 wettest conditions persist in the high Alps and in the Ticino canton, which has much sun yet heavy bursts of rain from time to time.

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**Who acts:** wettest conditions, Ticino canton · **What happens:** persist, have, burst · **To what, where:** high Alps, sun heavy bursts, rain

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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 (wettest conditions, Ticino canton), 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:207
# text = The wettest conditions persist in the high Alps and in the Ticino canton, which has much sun yet heavy bursts of rain from time to time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wettest	wet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	persist	persist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Ticino	Ticino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	canton	canton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bursts	burst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persist** | present | the wettest conditions |  |  | the high Alps and the Ticino canton |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alp=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Ticino canton | sun heavy bursts of rain from time to time |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burst=Patient |
| 3 | **burst** |  |  | rain from time to time |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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